Have you been permanently banned from any forums?

cheesyboy · 17 Jan 2021 at 21:29

Don't think I've been banned anywhere, as far as I remember

robgmun said:
Didn't we just have this thread?

But yeah I'll repeat. I remember getting banned by the ***** at The Digital Fix a few years ago for daring to argue for Brexit.

They were just a bunch of 'right-on' wet losers that ended up running the site into the ground. I just popped my head in to see if they were even still a thing and they only have like 12 users left in total still posting and the place is practically dead.

I used to hang out there in about 2003 when it was still thedvdforums. The bargain forum was great!

SexyGreyFox · 18 Jan 2021 at 07:36

[FnG]magnolia said:
Uh huh.

e: ah, thread merge. I do like an unreliable narrator though

e2: ok, weird, they're not merged at all

Exactly the same story told a slightly different way -

1) I was permabanned from here but I groveled until they let me back with a promise I wouldn't use a rival forum.

2) I was permabanned on here but I went to the OCUK shop and groveled to Spie

EDIT: I had wrote out a big response in the first post but got scared I might become foul of the Mods so I thought I hadn't posted anything.

I was a friend of Mark's, went to the shop and sat in his office for an hour talking about loads of stuff.
It was quite funny that I'd been banned from the anti-OCUK Forum but he was also a member of it

Theophany · 18 Jan 2021 at 08:48

SexyGreyFox said:
Exactly the same story told a slightly different way -

1) I was permabanned from here but I groveled until they let me back with a promise I wouldn't use a rival forum.

2) I was permabanned on here but I went to the OCUK shop and groveled to Spie

I was a friend of Mark's, went to the shop and sat in his office for an hour talking about loads of stuff.
It was quite funny that I'd been banned from the anti-OCUK Forum but he was also a member of it

There was an anti-OcUK forum??

SexyGreyFox · 18 Jan 2021 at 09:38

Theophany said:
There was an anti-OcUK forum??

If the Mods allow me I'd love to tell the history of it, nothing sordid but a simple Timeline and what became of it.

Theophany · 18 Jan 2021 at 09:41

@Feek can we get a ruling please?

Feek · 18 Jan 2021 at 09:59

SexyGreyFox said:
If the Mods allow me I'd love to tell the history of it, nothing sordid but a simple Timeline and what became of it.

Theophany said:
@Feek can we get a ruling please?

Let's not. No point in bringing up old (and very unpleasant) history.

Funny how there are some short memories in this thread though.

Theophany · 18 Jan 2021 at 10:00

No fun allowed

SexyGreyFox · 18 Jan 2021 at 10:29

Feek said:
Let's not. No point in bringing up old (and very unpleasant) history.

Funny how there are some short memories in this thread though.

Fair enough, that's why I deleted 99% of my first post

And the ban at the time was deserved because we were warned but I stupidly owned up to it

Methanoid · 18 Jan 2021 at 15:05

dLockers said:
There was an interesting turn of events in a thread on SomethingAwful forum a long time ago. A member killed another. The criminal justice system kicked in and I think the chap got 10 years.

SomethingAwful banned the members forum account for 365 days for the same crime.

My point... an online forum should not be harsher than the criminal justice system.... I know the mods aren't interested but (AFAIK) it isn't (YET) against the rules to point out this flaw, politely.

Marky · 18 Jan 2021 at 15:06

Nope! I'm a good boy!

Theophany · 18 Jan 2021 at 15:13

dLockers said:
There was an interesting turn of events in a thread on SomethingAwful forum a long time ago. A member killed another. The criminal justice system kicked in and I think the chap got 10 years.

SomethingAwful banned the members forum account for 365 days for the same crime.

SA has a storied history of terrible moderators. Aatrek being the most obvious one.

burtie · 18 Jan 2021 at 16:24

Nope never....I don't post on such places to get banned.

Smokey Deza · 18 Jan 2021 at 16:37

Never. Got banned from LoL though for cheating.

Pretty sure it wasn't me playing however.

Maccy · 18 Jan 2021 at 16:45

Methanoid said:
My point... an online forum should not be harsher than the criminal justice system.... I know the mods aren't interested but (AFAIK) it isn't (YET) against the rules to point out this flaw, politely.

No, but you agreed to abide by the rules when you registered here so...?

cainer · 18 Jan 2021 at 16:45

Not banned from a forum but got a life time ban from a Bingo website,
i'd deposit £10 a day to gain entry to their free 'daily depositors' draw, then withdraw the £10 with any winnings the next day without wagering any of it, rinse and repeat,
probably made around £1500 over ~18 months before they found out and banned me

EDIT: just remembered i'm also banned from Quidco from too many click's on free cashback links,
i made hay while the sun shone on that one though so fair do's

Hyburnate · 18 Jan 2021 at 21:18

I don't think I've ever been banned from a forum at all...

I've done some pretty immature stuff when I was that but these days I'm a pretty boring old man before my time

Feek · 18 Jan 2021 at 21:20

Hyburnate said:
I don't think I've ever been banned from a forum at all...

If you'd like to change that, just say the word and I can issue a short suspension

Hyburnate · 18 Jan 2021 at 21:21

Feek said:
If you'd like to change that, just say the word and I can issue a short suspension

No thanks

Have you not seen my average posts as of late? I'd struggle what to do with the time

Feek · 18 Jan 2021 at 21:24

Hyburnate said:
No thanks Have you not seen my average posts as of late? I'd struggle what to do with the time

I can offer you twenty minutes. I mean, you could just go for a long satisfying poo and it'd be over before you get back.

/edit - Actually I think the shortest I can do is an hour so let me know when you're going for a bath

Hyburnate · 18 Jan 2021 at 22:06

Feek said:
I can offer you twenty minutes. I mean, you could just go for a long satisfying poo and it'd be over before you get back.

/edit - Actually I think the shortest I can do is an hour so let me know when you're going for a bath

Wait... so browsing the forums isn't what most people do in the bath?

I'd rather not taint my almost perfect record here.