Eric Allione Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Whether they are abusing their admin powers or not, you definitely did something to provoke them. I doubt anyone is so corrupt to report people without cause (whatsoever). Also, you can get on the list yourself for reporting spammers without cause or evidence.I am unable to elaborate on my speculations of why you specifically might have been flagged without making it sound like a personal attack, but I hope you can read between the lines there without getting offended. Remember that you should expect anything you write on the internet to be interpreted in a 100 different ways, many bad. Which means you need to be extra careful with your rhetoric, keeping discussions productive rather than confrontational.
• Jay • Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Whether they are abusing their admin powers or not, you definitely did something to provoke them. I doubt anyone is so corrupt to report people without cause (whatsoever). Also, you can get on the list yourself for reporting spammers without cause or evidence. I know a few who treat forums as their little sandbox, and I have a board full of members that can confirm it.
Rheddy Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Jay, hate to sound blunt, but it is their own personal sandbox. The fact that you may have been blacklisted means that you probably ignored their forum rules, ignored verbal and posted warnings. When you register for an account on a website that you do not own or operate, yoou are a visitor there with privileges. Those privileges can be removed and your access restricted when you violate their policy. While I don't retailiate against members on my site or message forums, there are certain codes of coduct that I expect the members on my site to follow. Once every year, some idiot tries to push the envelope and I have gotten to the point where I don't even issue verbal warnings anymore. If someone violates the forum policy on my site, they simply get a permanent ban. I'm familiar with every member on my site and I know who is active, who isn't and who is a new member. When someone acts in a manner that disrupts my community, they do not get a chance to explain themselves. Please note that regular active and contributing members are often given some latitude, it's those members who post hateful content that end up on my "banned and blacklisted" list. I have found that those who own and operate their own websites will sometimes register and post derogatory messages on other message forums in order to generate traffic for their own site. This happens when you have a community that is very unique and there are maybe one or two communities similar to your own. My community happens to be very loyal and very dedicated and it happens that I have a very popular website that is often referenced by anime and news websites as well as the media industry. What I always tell new members, when they look like they're going to violate the forum rules on my site is that a forum account does not grant you the license to post whatever you want without censor. It's a privilege, not a right and that those rights and that access can be removed and/or restricted. Just remember, you are a guest on someone else's website. Be aware of the rules on that website and you will not get banned.
• Jay • Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 Jay, hate to sound blunt, but it is their own personal sandbox. The fact that you may have been blacklisted means that you probably ignored their forum rules, ignored verbal and posted warnings. When you register for an account on a website that you do not own or operate, yoou are a visitor there with privileges. Those privileges can be removed and your access restricted when you violate their policy. I hate to sound blunt, but all of this seems to be going straight over your head. The SFS thing has nothing to do with a single site banning issue. It's the fact that data submitted into the SFS database affects every site that uses the SFS service, not just the one site owned by the corrupt admin. How many different ways do I have to say the same thing before it registers? You wonder why I have no respect when you are a condescending punk. 'tis funny stuff, really.
Rheddy Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 You're recycling this argument and simply not listening what we're saying. For some reason or another, someone must have tired of you at their site and simply placed you on the blacklist for spammers and trolls at SFS. What probably happened was that you posted something something on someone's site and they just opted to place you on the SFS database. Why were you placed on the list in the first place? You probably registered on some website/message forum where the admin has a very strict policy. Again, some forum communities are like that. I don't why this argument started in the first place, but if you're on the SFS blacklist, then you probably ran into an admin at some site or another, that has a strict policy about its members following the forum rules. I can name several forum communities that are like that, one of the biggest ones is "Megatokyo.com", which has been using IPB for a very long but whose community has been operating online for more than 20 years. They are one such community that happens to be very strict with their forum rules. They have to be and they rely on that very fact. An admin simply will not "blacklist" you for absolutely no reason. While going the SFS route to blacklist you from a large number of sites seems to be an extreme thing to do, it happened, and you need to move on. Play with your own community and go from there. I happen to think that SFS is a great resource and it serves a purpose. In your case, I would surmise that you angered some admin on another site and they simply opted to add you to the database at SFS. It's a little extreme, but you need to remember to follow the rules of a website, especially if you don't run it. Every IPB member here will tell you the same thing, or something close to it. When you register at any website, you are a guest in their "home". When you violate their website, you take a big risk from receiving any number of restrictions. Just remember, a forum account is a privilege, not a right.
bfarber Posted November 5, 2012 Posted November 5, 2012 I think this topic is done. Name calling is not allowed here. Thanks.
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