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Banned from soccer

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  • 02-09-2011 3:55pm
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    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,642 ✭✭✭✭


    I have been banned from the soccer forum for apparently abusing a fellow poster, who, unbenknownst to me, had a disability - as I do myself.

    I made some off the cuff remark to the poster in reply to one of their posts, and as a result, have been banned from the soccer forum(unfairly in my view).

    The main issue I have with the ban is: how am I supposed to have known that the poster has a disability(this is the internet after all)? I was unaware of this. I thought the poster was himself, being abusive towards another poster, which is why I reported it.

    I feel I have been banned unfairly and would appreciate it if the ban could be reviewed/lifted.


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    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Mental Mickey wrote: »
    I have been banned from the soccer forum for apparently abusing a fellow poster, who, unbenknownst to me, had a disability - as I do myself.
    I made some off the cuff remark to the poster in reply to one of their posts, and as a result, have been banned from the soccer forum(unfairly in my view).
    The main issue I have with the ban is: how am I supposed to have known that the poster has a disability(this is the internet after all)? I was unaware of this. I thought the poster was himself, being abusive towards another poster, which is why I reported it.
    I feel I have been banned unfairly and would appreciate it if the ban could be reviewed/lifted.

    Well, looking at the thread, efb stated openly that he was in hospital awaiting surgery for hydrocephalus. You then stated to another poster who was offering sympthies,
    Mental Mickey wrote: »
    The poster hasnt got a brain in the first place - you need one to have that condition.

    Frankly, I don't think your account of what happened matches well with the source material in the thread, and it seems to be a very clear-cut case of you breaking the soccer forum's charter in a very straightforward way. I don't see any grounds to lift it.


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    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users Posts: 10,642 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    Sparks wrote: »
    Well, looking at the thread, efb stated openly that he was in hospital awaiting surgery for hydrocephalus. You then stated to another poster who was offering sympthies,

    Frankly, I don't think your account of what happened matches well with the source material in the thread, and it seems to be a very clear-cut case of you breaking the soccer forum's charter in a very straightforward way. I don't see any grounds to lift it.

    Could you post a link to the thread in question so I can have a look back over it?


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    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74156544


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