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Banned person
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:56 am
by Tricky
I received a message of someone nicked Turing a little while ago. Hi, how are you doing, nothing more. I replied but never got an answer. I checked on this person's status just now and reads 'banned'.
I'm curious, what happened there?
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:32 am
by Xandax
... the person have been banned for some reason.
I'm not familiar with the specific "nick", and while I could check up on it, it is not custom for us to discuss banning with non-involve people, in which case I would not disclose such information.
Often a banning are "public", however some violations do require us to delete and/or modify posts, which makes it less clear to the "public" why a person might have been banned. Some accounts get banned for advertisements, or linking to pornographic sites, piracy sites and so on - and it is custom for us to delete such threads.
And it could be the case with the account in question, but as said - we rarely discuss the specifics of a particular banning outside moderator/Buck.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:52 am
by Moonbiter
He sent me the same PM. "Hi. I'm new. How are you doing." He didn't have any posts to his name, only a link to a site on Buddhism.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:15 am
by DesR85
This person also sent me a PM too a few days ago. I also replied back but never got a response.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:55 am
by Cuchulain82
I got the same PM and thought it was pm spam. I didn't respond.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:20 am
by AvatarOfLight
I didn't get one
So sad
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:57 am
by BuckGB
After multiple abuse notifications on this account, I went ahead and banned it. I'm not sure it was even a real person. From the looks of it, it was just a spambot designed to PM everyone at a forum with a link to some bizarre website.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:58 am
by Naffnuff
Oh yeah, that's right! First I thought the guy was just being nice, but when I saw the website, I thought, "This guy is trying to convert me or something!" Sort of nice in the soliciting way.
And to think I responded to his friendliness! I feel used!
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:18 am
by Tricky
Well the link was in his or her signature. Awkward, but I have seen [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/gamebanshee-announcements-30/gamebanshee-affiliates-87373.html"]stranger things[/url] in signatures around here.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:22 am
by Naffnuff
Tricky wrote:Well the link was in his or her signature. Awkward, but I have seen [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/gamebanshee-announcements-30/gamebanshee-affiliates-87373.html"]stranger things[/url] in signatures around here.
Lol!:laugh:
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:54 am
by Xandax
Seeing as Buck has explained his actions et al, I'm closing this thread to avoid it getting turned off-topic.
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