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  • 29-10-2007 3:40pm
    #1
    Teddi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 463 ✭✭


    Im wondering why I can't access the personals section?

    Its as if I was banned or something...as Im not sure why as I only go to the personals section to keep updated on my thread I have there..

    If I have been banned for something..its odd as i didnt even get a warning if I had posted something unfit for the forum....if I did I apologise but can an admin help me on this? Thank you.
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    #2
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055173217

    im gonna bet it was that.


    Pm the mod of the forum.


    kdjac


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    #3
    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    It wasn't exactly helpful (whether you were right or wrong is irrelevant, though I don't see how you thought infecting his wife with HIV was deserved).

    Besides, if the personals section is http://www.adverts.ie/index.php?cat=4 If you acted like Personal Issues was a personals section you would have been banned over that anyway.


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    #4
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    One of the Personal Issues moderators has banned you for one week because of your "serves you right" comment.
    Personal Issues is a forum where unhelpful remarks are not tolerated. Plus, that comment was tantamount to an attack on the OP, no matter how justified you felt you were. You can't really let your personal convictions get in the way when someone is looking for impartial advice.


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    #5
    Teddi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 463 ✭✭Teddi


    Yea..I know it wasnt the right thing to say....

    My reasonings for saying it ...is because a close friend of mine was infected like that due to an unresponsible b/f...very similiar to that OP's situation...

    I could have been warned though..then made an apology...


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    #6
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Some offences are not deemed serious enough to warrant a banning - in those cases, yes, you will get a warning. But a personal attack - instant banning. Often it's a permanent one though, so your punishment is still on the lighter end of the scale.


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    #7
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    If I were you I'd make the apology anyway.
    Even if the ban isn't lifted you have done the honourable thing and that is always more important than the cost.


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    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    should have been permanent.


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    #9
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Teddi wrote: »
    Yea..I know it wasnt the right thing to say....

    I could have been warned though..then made an apology...
    We don't always warn people. If someone makes an extremely inappropriate comment on PI (and other fora) then you can find yourself with a ban and having no idea why. This is good in my opinion as it confuses you, and then makes YOU waste your time in trying to find out why you were banned. This is good because the mods spend their time trying to make the forum a clean and proper place for intelligent discussion, so why should they spend more time on someone that obviously doesn't give a hoot about the forum. Because you showed that you didn't give a hoot about the forum.

    No wooing people with your experiences of Aids
    My reasonings for saying it ...is because a close friend of mine was infected like that due to an unresponsible b/f...very similiar to that OP's situation...
    It's a shame you didn't woo the audience with your supreme experience in this field. You could have even made it an interesting post using wit, but sometimes wit can go too far and reduce your wooing abilities. Because as you know - one truly can be too wit to woo.


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    #10
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,907 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Gordon wrote: »
    Because as you know - one truly can be too wit to woo.
    ** snigger **


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    #11
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    lol, I was wondering where gordon was going with that last paragraph.


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    #12
    Teddi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 463 ✭✭Teddi


    Excuse me...id rather you not mock the serious situation of my close friend thank you...say what you will to me...but don't include that into the equation.


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    #13
    Teddi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 463 ✭✭Teddi


    On another note...

    I do apologise for saying what I did..and if I had the chance I would take it back, It was a spare of the moment thing.


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    Teddi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 463 ✭✭Teddi


    On another note...

    I do apologise for saying what I did..and if I had the chance I would take it back, It was a spare of the moment thing.


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    #15
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    We all make mistakes.
    Let's leave it at that?


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    #16
    Marksie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,395 ✭✭✭Marksie


    Teddi wrote: »
    It was a spare of the moment thing.

    There is a big difference between saying something on the spare of the moment and typing it. You have time to stop yourself hitting the post button.


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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,907 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Teddi wrote: »
    It was a spare of the moment thing.
    Marksie wrote: »
    There is a big difference between saying something on the spare of the moment and typing it.
    Or even a "spur" of the moment thing! ;)


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    #18
    Asok
    Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piChUkmYjVI


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    #19
    Marksie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,395 ✭✭✭Marksie


    basquille wrote: »
    Or even a "spur" of the moment thing! ;)

    LOL, *must take own advice*


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    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    Asok wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piChUkmYjVI

    quality post
    :cool:


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    #21
    po0k
    Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    smile.gif


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    #22
    The Chessplayer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭The Chessplayer


    How many warnings do you get before you get banned, and is it possible to dispute a warning? I only just joined and already got a warning for a totally innocuous jovial post about visa waivers in the USA. The warning blasted me as a "spanner"! I've never been called a spanner in my life - what's a spanner???


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    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,907 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    The Chessplayer wrote: »
    The warning blasted me as a "spanner"! I've never been called a spanner in my life - what's a spanner???
    Obviously...

    spanner.jpg

    .. you should be ashamed!


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    #24
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    The Chessplayer wrote: »
    How many warnings do you get before you get banned, and is it possible to dispute a warning? I only just joined and already got a warning for a totally innocuous jovial post about visa waivers in the USA. The warning blasted me as a "spanner"! I've never been called a spanner in my life - what's a spanner???

    Under the infraction system if you get 9 infraction points in 10 days then you get a 1 week site ban. This is only a new system and the wrinkles are still being ironed out in it. Things could change and it may even be dropped. You received a warning which means no points.

    I can't envisage any one getting 9 points in the space of 10 days unless they were trying too or unless they are someone who seriously breeches site wide rules such as spamming.


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    #25
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    basquille wrote: »
    Obviously...

    spanner.jpg

    .. you should be ashamed!

    actually, afaik (which isnt much when it comes to hardware tools) thats an adjustable spanner, or a monkey wrench.

    both of which are extremely useful.

    so cheeseprayer, when you were called a spanner, they actually meant you were a very useful chap :)


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    #26
    The Chessplayer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭The Chessplayer


    WhiteWashMan wrote: »
    actually, afaik (which isnt much when it comes to hardware tools) thats an adjustable spanner, or a monkey wrench.

    both of which are extremely useful.

    so cheeseprayer, when you were called a spanner, they actually meant you were a very useful chap :)

    That's what I thought, hence I couldn't understand why it was a warning. The spanner being an incredibly useful piece of equipment, usually with 2 different sizes.


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    #27
    jonski
    Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭jonski


    The Chessplayer wrote: »
    That's what I thought, hence I couldn't understand why it was a warning. The spanner being an incredibly useful piece of equipment, usually with 2 different sizes.

    Actually you are being referred to as an old fashioned poster that is out of touch with all around . You have been surpassed by the socket and wrench which in turn has been surpassed by that superdupersocketeytypethingwithloadsofpins that opens all sorts of nuts even rusty and broken ones .

    The easiest way to not get banned is to not be a tool at all .


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    #28
    The Chessplayer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭The Chessplayer


    jonski wrote: »
    Actually you are being referred to as an old fashioned poster that is out of touch with all around . You have been surpassed by the socket and wrench which in turn has been surpassed by that superdupersocketeytypethingwithloadsofpins that opens all sorts of nuts even rusty and broken ones .

    The easiest way to not get banned is to not be a tool at all .

    I have no idea what you're talking about


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    #29
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Teddi wrote: »
    On another note...

    I do apologise for saying what I did..and if I had the chance I would take it back, It was a spare of the moment thing.

    Teddi, it was me who banned you and I apologise for not sending a PM to accompany the ban. PI was going crazy over the weekend and I think that I banned 3 other people in conjunction with you.

    I note your apology and contact me, or another mod, a week from the date of the ban, and we will rescind it.

    dudara


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    #30
    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Hahah Asok


    <3


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    #31
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Teddi wrote: »
    Excuse me...id rather you not mock the serious situation of my close friend thank you...say what you will to me...but don't include that into the equation.
    I wasn't mocking your friends situation, I'm surprised that you think that.


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