Why Were you Banned

[DarkCloud]

I believe it may be interesting to note why some posters were banned and for how long

I can only remember a few banned apolytoners:

Alexander's Horse (twice)
-(October 2000?)- Spamming CtP forums
-(Decemember 2000)- Slander war with Lancer

Andz83
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Ceasear the Great
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

orange
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Bill 3000
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Somgu
-(November 2000)- Lewd Posting Picture

Dookie/ Nimrod/ Warning:
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Bulldog
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Provost Harrison
-(October 2000)- Spamgate


Snapcase on Snapcase
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Comrade Dan
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Wezil
-(???)- Bad Taste

Faboba
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

(Giant Squid) Alexander the Great
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Kropotkin
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Iain Lindley
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

WarVoid
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Builder
-(October 2000)- Spamgate

Spiced Ham, JETW, Panama of Ghosts, Ghost of Panama, Brian Reynolds, Dancing with MikeH, and
other ACOL DL's
-(November-December 2000)- for being DLs of ACOL posters.

connorkimbro
-(???)- Black Saturday

MikeH
-(???)- Black Saturday

Dissident Agressor
-(???)- For having a DL

Dave Boshko
-(???)- For having a DL

Dan Rather, Dan Rather , and other newscaster DL's
-(???)- For being DL's

Richard Cranium
-(???)- DL

Diplodochus
-(October 2000)- Andz83 DL
-(October 2000)- Spamgate
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[Mercantile]

was spamgate a concert i missed? I havn't been on vacation yet

If you're talking about recent occurences, there's always CivNation.

Also the 2(?) acolers....Spiced Ham, JETW, Panama of Ghosts, Ghost of Panama, Brian Reynolds, Dancing with MikeH etc. for numerous DLs.



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phoenixcager
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Nope, I was never banned. You must be thinking of The Call of Snapcase, a different poster entirely. Look, I registered in November, that was way after this "spamgate" thing you're reffering to.

[Ming]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Snapcase on Snapcase on 12-10-2000 08:05 PM</font>
Nope, I was never banned. You must be thinking of The Call of Snapcase, a different poster entirely. Look, I registered in November, that was way after this "spamgate" thing you're reffering to.
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ROTFLMAO... Yeah... right... HA HA HA HA HA!

It's just about impossible to get inadvertantly banned, if you view the cases. Everyone knows the sort of thing that will do it, but it takes some pretty severe provocation to actually get banned.

Has anyone actually been surprised by a ban?

[Builder]

hey, I dont wanna be "many others"...

Builder
Spamgate



(and I have a feeling Ming is planning something for me... J/K)

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Lazarus & the Gimp on 12-11-2000 05:12 AM</font>
It's just about impossible to get inadvertantly banned, if you view the cases. Everyone knows the sort of thing that will do it, but it takes some pretty severe provocation to actually get banned.

Has anyone actually been surprised by a ban?
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Yes. I have no idea how the moderators figured out for certain that Richard Cranium was a double login. The name is suspicious, but you'd think that they'd disable it right away, not wait a month.

me:
Impersonating Dan Rather
Black Sunday

[Provost Harrison]

Who is Dan Rather?

[Lefty Scaevola]

. His real name is Kenneth.

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Pontificator Pendanticus
older richer & wiser than you
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[Wezil]

I had the extreme bad timing to start a thread on death at a time when a fellow poster had a sick spouse. Completely unrelated but in order to spare any hurt feelings I was deleted and censored. I'm still waiting to start my thread again but I guess I have to poll the membership first to ensure everyone is feeling ok.

My banning over the issue was not a surprise. I encouraged it.

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"These were giants [The ‘Hellfire’ Club]. They had standards - not like these whimpering mashers who keep fouling our headlines today."

Free the D**d Threads!!

the "i just..." way people always use to explain how they got their accounts disabled is always amazing...

[Provost Harrison]

. Why do you do that Lefty?

[Wezil]

Hmm, was the account of my banning incorrect MarkG? Is ACS brave enough to allow a public debate on the issue yet? Doubt it.



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"These were giants [The ‘Hellfire’ Club]. They had standards - not like these whimpering mashers who keep fouling our headlines today."

Free the D**d Threads!!

[Lefty Scaevola]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Provost Harrison on 12-12-2000 11:08 AM</font>
. Why do you do that Lefty?
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. If the question is about Dan Rather & Kenneth, its a reference to the infamous mugging (real or made up?) the CBS's anchor's life. What his mugger is supposed to have said is "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Pontificator Pendanticus
older richer & wiser than you
Edit to correct decayed memory
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[Mercantile]

More aployton justice at its best Wow, when will the courts have time for all the appeals

[DaveV]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola on 12-12-2000 11:48 AM</font>
. If the question is about Dan Rather & Leonard, its a reference to the infamous mugging (real or made up?) the CBS's anchor life. Since I was doing it from memory its possible than "Leonard" is the wrong name. What his mugger is supposed to have said is "What's the code, Leonard?"
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>"What is the frequency, Kenneth?", as I recall.

[Lefty Scaevola]

. That's it Dave, pity to get old and senile like me

"Who is Dan Rather?"
Ah young one in the old days, before the coming of Ming before the dark times, there was an infestation of spammy DL news casters lead by Dan Rather (who was the famed UBB bug History049). In the thread that announced the banning of Dan Rather I posted a short innoculous post ("I don't see what this will accomplish") as Dan Rather(ten spaces) (you could do that then) and got banned for having a DL.

[MikeH]

I was banned on Black Sunday (actually posted on Friday IIRC) or whatever you call it.

I totally deserved it.

[Provost Harrison]

Actually lefty I mean why do you put a dot and a space before every sentence?

[connorkimbro]

I was banned on black saturday for, iirc, 34 days. might have been longer than that.

i definatly got the longest banning though.

OH, i also got an 800+ post count reduction for that.

[Lefty Scaevola]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Provost Harrison on 12-13-2000 07:53 AM</font>
Actually lefty I mean why do you put a dot and a space before every sentence?
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. Not before each sentance, before each paragraph as the easiest method of indenting in this script, which would otherwise compress the space a the start of line if not preceded by a charactor.

twenty spaces before this line

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Pontificator Pendanticus
older richer & wiser than you

why not use < DD > ?

<DD>blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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[Builder]

Stop your spamming or I will!



(Please dont ban me)

[DarkCloud]

Out of curiosity- what were the three banning exoduses, and when were they?

Black Saturday
Spamgate (November)

[The Mad Viking]

ARgh!

What are the specifics of Horsie's latest banning?

Is there a thread?

[DarkCloud]

Horse claims he has left Apolyton for good- ask Hydey about it...

Updated list.

[Lefty Scaevola]

. Horse, over at ACOL, did not say gone for good, only for now. Its possible Hydey has misinterpretted. I saw his posts as -I have enjoyed as much as I can stand for a liitle while-. His last post in thread at ACOL said "its no big deal" and "I'm just going to chill here a while".

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Pontificator Pendanticus
older richer & wiser than you
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