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  • 14-08-2007 4:05pm
    #1
    deaddonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭


    like 2 months ago i got banned from the animals and pet forum for some reason, even though i didn't break the charter, and it's pretty obvious, both using grammar and common sense that what i said was tongue in cheek. no message was left in the thread and no pm was sent

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055117692&page=2

    note 'possible racial content' - it pretty obviously wasn't.... i did, after all say, "i *could say"

    when i sent a pm to the mod that edited my post this is the response i got:
    Bond007 wrote:
    I issued the ban purely because I was told to by more senior mods - I will allow you access again in a weeks time.

    Sorry about that but my hand was forced.

    Faye

    to which i replied:
    deaddonkey wrote:
    which mod? I want to write to them because as far as i can see i haven't broken any rules.

    to which was answered:
    Bond-007 wrote:

    Please contact an admin as the ban will stand as i see it. It is only for 1 week. Could be far worse.

    a month and a half later for some reason i haven't been unbanned, so i send off a pm asking if i could be unbanned

    this is the respone i get
    Bond-007 wrote:
    Hi

    I have unbanned you. Take it as a final warning. Anymore complaints received will result in a perm ban.

    Faye

    i'm failing to see the logic train here tbh...

    first the hand was twisted and he didn't have a choice, then it's only one week, then it's a final warning before a permanent ban?

    lol

    i honestly don't get it.
    i don't care a whole load either tbh, but i'm wondering why...?

    peace out -
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    It might be a personal template message of the mods and they sent it to anyone they un-ban, so they know they only get one chance?

    No need to flog a dead donkey anyway :p.


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    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Any chance you want to post the PM you sent before you got that last warning?


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    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    If you're confused go to PI.


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    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    AlmightyCushion wrote:
    If you're confused go to PI.

    Now ! Now ! :D


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    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Maybe they don't appreciate your name? If a person called MmmmmQuarterPounder posted in the Veggie forum (assuming there is one) they wouldn't be too popular.

    I wouldn't mind a nice quarter pounder now that I mention it actually......


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    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    Don't 2 posters use that one account (Bond-007) though. Maybe that's where the confusion started


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Having read the original offending post, and the subsequent number of complaints you managed to generate on a single thread, the ban was totally justified.
    note 'possible racial content' - it pretty obviously wasn't.... i did, after all say, "i *could say"
    I disagree. Taken on its own, moderating it may appear overly PC, however your previous comments gave the post a more grim context.
    a month and a half later for some reason i haven't been unbanned, so i send off a pm asking if i could be unbanned
    There's no automatic unban system for forum bans. A week ban lasting a month or more is common enough, generally we say that it's the poster's business to remind the mod that the ban has been spent.
    i'm failing to see the logic train here tbh...
    OK. Complaints come in about your posts. Mod asks for advice on what to do. "More senior mods" (I'm assuming admins) insist on a week long ban. You get unbanned, and reminded that if you cause **** again, you'll get a permanent ban.


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    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    you lost me at
    deaddonkey wrote:
    i did, after all say, "i *could say"

    cosmic, that's just a way of saying whatever you want and then later on saying......
    deaddonkey wrote:
    i did, after all say, "i *could say"

    :p


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    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Isn't it bad form to post the contents of PMs?
    That on it's own is worth a good kick up the arse IMHO.


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    6th
    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Agreed.


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    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Perhaps it's excusable if the person in question is acting in their mod capacity? Maybe it's not...


    I think the user's just confused about the change in the tone from the mod but my guess is simply that the mod forgot about the original incident and gave a default reply.


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    Mr Magnolia
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    Hagar wrote:
    Isn't it bad form to post the contents of PMs?
    That on it's own is worth a good kick up the arse IMHO.



    Depends really IMHO.

    If a poster hasn't been satisfied via PM's as regards a ban and feels they need to go to feedback as the PM route is exausted* then I feel it may be appropriate to publish PM's directly regarding the issue at hand. Posts can be read out of context which is one of the reasons PM's can be important before and after a ban.

    If a mod is banning someone and PM'ing them the reason/duration etc I think it would be fair to assume the PM is of a non-personal type and could/may be air'd publically. I would consider it such anyway and word my PM's carefully and matter-of-fact.


    * Exausted being 'Don't PM me any more take it to feedback' type message.

    [/2 cents]


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