Have you ever been banned?

[Cory]

I've been banned once that I can recall, and that was for a period on the Zathyus Networks support board for spamming multiple users' inboxes due to a staff member ticking me off severely and the fact that I was young and immature.

 

[Cedric]

Most probably more than once, but I can't remember the reason and where anymore. 🤔 😅 I think it's fair to say that we were all immature (still am sometimes) at some point, did regrettable things and got banned somewhere.

 

[Kyng]

Not from any communities that I cared about . I'm pretty sure I've been banned by immature admins over silly things once or twice, but that's it.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have.

I've been banned from a few forums for posting too much. I can do some serious posting if I'm in the right mood. My posts were good quality, too, they just didn't like me posting so many times a day.

I don't agree with that being a reason to ban, personally.

I got banned from the SMF support forum temporarily. I deserved it to be honest. I was accused of not finishing a theme job. The problem was I didn't make themes. They guy accused me of being the same person who ripped him off. I took it to heart and overreacted. It led to me getting banned temporarily, switching forum software, and losing a good friend in the process (we've made our peace later on).

I was younger then and a different Shawn. Nowadays, I'd react a lot differently, mainly using the ignore feature

Aside from that, no other bans. I'm usually a good boy Haha

 

[Kale]

Yes, justified bans. I have been banned for being a pest and troll before way back in the day. I moved on from those days and am thankful for it.

 

[blackballoon]

I was banned from a forum I used to be an admin of. There were some power issues between other admins and the rest of us decided to create our own site. The owner of the forum we left ended up banning the rest of us.

 

[Ken]

Only site I was banned from was the Proboards support board. Too toxic.

 

[Shortie]

From what I remember I have only ever been banned once on a forum and that was for a very stupid reason. I was a member of a forum back in 2004 and I became a regular member there and met a lot of cool people. I was promoted to the moderator and unfortunately, at least two of the moderators didn't like me for some reason so they would make life difficult for me. In the end, they accused me of something I hadn't done and I got banned for it. I just kind of left the forum after that and never bothered with it, next thing I knew, it was gone and had closed.

 

[Sparr]

I haven't been banned on forums ever since I started using it 5 years ago. But as for social media sites especially on Facebook, I have been banned countless times than I can remember. I'm even tired of creating a new account.

 

[Kale]

I haven't been banned on forums ever since I started using it 5 years ago. But as for social media sites especially on Facebook, I have been banned countless times than I can remember. I'm even tired of creating a new account.

I too have been banned constantly on Facebook especially when I used to run Facebook meme pages. People would report my posts and get my accounts disabled or post blocked/banned allll the time. This was during the 2010-2012 era of Facebook or so.

 

[Cory]

I had a temp ban in a group on Facebook for posting a relevant article on how to accomplish things. Tyrants, I tell you!

 

[Bluezone777]

I can recall a handful of times I was banned somewhere. Most of the time it was for the crime of using the feedback forum for its intended purpose. I recall one forum where the admin didn't want anyone posting in forum adverts in the advert forum unless they were staff of the forum being advertised. I argued that was a dumb rule that should be changed and one thing led to another which resulted in 8 people including myself being banned along with driving the entire staff team with the lone exception of the owner to quit on him which actually killed the forum soon after.

Another good one was the ban I got on ZNB while I was a staff member. He clearly didn't like me and then banned me with the reason listed as " This is me not liking you. Cheers." What he didn't know was that I had access to the member's section of the ACP which was a feature that ZB had where people could be given partial access to the ACP while not being an actual admin. This access wasn't tied to my usergroup so I was able to undo his ban then PM the owner which led to him resigning to escape being fired which is what would have happened if he hadn't quit first. Needlesly to say, the entire community unanimously celebrated his retirement and I ended up taking his place in the end. lol

 

[Cedric]

I can recall a handful of times I was banned somewhere. Most of the time it was for the crime of using the feedback forum for its intended purpose. I recall one forum where the admin didn't want anyone posting in forum adverts in the advert forum unless they were staff of the forum being advertised. I argued that was a dumb rule that should be changed and one thing led to another which resulted in 8 people including myself being banned along with driving the entire staff team with the lone exception of the owner to quit on him which actually killed the forum soon after.

Another good one was the ban I got on ZNB while I was a staff member. He clearly didn't like me and then banned me with the reason listed as " This is me not liking you. Cheers." What he didn't know was that I had access to the member's section of the ACP which was a feature that ZB had where people could be given partial access to the ACP while not being an actual admin. This access wasn't tied to my usergroup so I was able to undo his ban then PM the owner which led to him resigning to escape being fired which is what would have happened if he hadn't quit first. Needlesly to say, the entire community unanimously celebrated his retirement and I ended up taking his place in the end. lol

Who was that?

 

[Bluezone777]

If you are referring to ZNB then that would be Aaron which was known for being one of ZNB's admin for a short while and being on Infinite Results staff team at some point.

 

[Cedric]

If you are referring to ZNB then that would be Aaron which was known for being one of ZNB's admin for a short while and being on Infinite Results staff team at some point.

Can't say I remember him, I was staff on IR for a little while.

 

[Cory]

The only Aaron I remember on Zathyus Networks is the community staff member on the official board.

Though, I remember the two forums you speak of.

 

[Bluezone777]

Yeah that was a different Aaron from the one I am talking about. This is the thing with using your first name as an username as it lends itself to confusion when you talk about someone in many cases.

 

[Kale]

I can recall a handful of times I was banned somewhere. Most of the time it was for the crime of using the feedback forum for its intended purpose. I recall one forum where the admin didn't want anyone posting in forum adverts in the advert forum unless they were staff of the forum being advertised. I argued that was a dumb rule that should be changed and one thing led to another which resulted in 8 people including myself being banned along with driving the entire staff team with the lone exception of the owner to quit on him which actually killed the forum soon after.

Another good one was the ban I got on ZNB while I was a staff member. He clearly didn't like me and then banned me with the reason listed as " This is me not liking you. Cheers." What he didn't know was that I had access to the member's section of the ACP which was a feature that ZB had where people could be given partial access to the ACP while not being an actual admin. This access wasn't tied to my usergroup so I was able to undo his ban then PM the owner which led to him resigning to escape being fired which is what would have happened if he hadn't quit first. Needlesly to say, the entire community unanimously celebrated his retirement and I ended up taking his place in the end. lol

Good lord... That sounds like some BS but glad this had a good ending! I hope that things are going well for you nowadays, though! I've not seen your username on a forum in a while.

But yeah, I tend to not use my first name as a username for that reason. Kale is so easy for somebody to recall/remember or any username.

 

[Cory]

This is the thing with using your first name as an username as it lends itself to confusion when you talk about someone in many cases.

True, but a lot of times online and offline, people get me mixed up with "Cody".

 

[an0nym0us]

I've been some forums for stupid reason when i was young, like ads other forums 😆😆