Why Were you Banned

I believe this is the thread in question:

http://www.an.i-dentity.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/012204.html
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My old screen name was banned (well actually 1 week vacation) for using a dl. I'm guilty as charged. I admit I'm a degenerate who onced used a DL.
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[MariOne]

just sheer curiosity (i.e. this is no way a protest, I couldn't care less).

What's the formal difference im motivation between being banned for:
1. having a DL
2. being a DL
3. being DL of ACOL poster

you really mean that:

in 1. you banned the original userID (but not his DL)?

in 2. you banned "the DL" (recognising his "being"!!!), but not the original userID??

in 3. being a DL of an ACOL poster is a more serious crime than being "just a DL"??? (help me define that: prejudice? paranoia? )

Really, one could think that you don't consider using DLs a bad thing "per se", but it depends on "whose" DL it is?
Do you call that "flexibility" or "double standards"?

Disclaimer: I fully recognize that the owners of this place make the rules they like, and many thanks for their valuable and underestimated services.
Just wondering about neutral philosophical concepts...

I don't think there's much of a difference between the treatment of a regular Apolytoner who has a DL and and ACOLyte who uses DLs on Apolyton.

It's just that ACOLytes a more obviously likely suspects due to their use of numerous Alter-egos(AEs) at ACOL.

[Theben]

Whatever happened to ol' History049?

What was Spamgate?

Mike Jesenka & maestrobto were banned on more than one occasion...

[TCO]

I exchanged e-mails with 049 a while ago. He said he has not been on the Apolyton boards. I think he would be pretty easy to spot as a DL.

[DarkCloud]

Spamgate was when a number of people spammed on a separate (undiscovered) forum of Apolyton's and were caught when Alexander's Horse squealed on them.

[Lefty Scaevola]

I believe that the "official line" of spam gate/area25 says that it was uncovered without regard to the Horse's posts, but by some other clue pssibly the surrepititious references to it in the OT by the participants.

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[TCO]

So why then did horse not share in the ban?

[Comrade Dan]

JUST Spamgate? I've been banned for more than that...

Countless bannings due to:

* Kamakazi attempts to make a political message
* Pushing Ming TOO far
* Spam
* Flame
* Massive posting
* ****ting on the FAQ

I missed out on Black Saturday though.

[AustralianJeremy]

I got banned for a flame reply to one of EvC's more objectionable posts, back in the days when he took great pleasure in being a dribbling nazi loon (before his conversion). Strangely enough, I had quite a good time that week. I discovered this place called "outside".

[Qilue]

Can I assume the lack of response to the "What was spamgate and black saturday?" question means no answer is forthcoming, because I'm curious too?

[Lancer]

I got banned on black saturday.

Black saturday was a thread created in the OT by Ming I believe, that was there for information purposes and included the instruction that nobody post in it. Well, lots of ppl did, myself included, and we got banned for it.

[DarkCloud]

Gp- Horse told them not to post there.

[Shadowstrike]

Horse sold us all out..... probably due to the excessive Aussie flaming by CD & Co.

IIRC, DC, Andz got banned again a week or so ago, and also a couple of months before Spamgate (for the DL known as Strategist)

The discovery of the secret forum caused a massive round of bannings, and PCRs (remarkably, some innocent people lost posts too, like Mao, who posted a single post IIRC).

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[MikeH]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Lancer on 12-18-2000 10:24 PM</font>
I got banned on black saturday.

Black saturday was a thread created in the OT by Ming I believe, that was there for information purposes and included the instruction that nobody post in it. Well, lots of ppl did, myself included, and we got banned for it.
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I think I was second to post in it.

[TCO]

AJ, wasn't it Jeszencka who you were fighting when you got banned. gotta keep the loonies (err...fine upstanding young posters, I mean) properly labeled...

I've been banned and post count reduced several times

the first banning was on black saturday, a mere 24 hours
the next was a month or so later, for spamming. another 24 hours

soon after, a week with 10% PCR, for spamming
followed by another 2 weeks and another 10%, for the DL I used during the week vacation

and then, 2 weeks and 30% PCR for spamgate/Area25

and a week or so ago I got a 2 week vacation with 20% included, thus getting my post count down to 2034

but I made about 3600 posts! *pouts*

I was wondering about what spamgate was. Then I realized it must be Area25. So whats the complete list now?

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Shadowstrike on 12-19-2000 08:25 PM</font>
Horse sold us all out..... probably due to the excessive Aussie flaming by CD & Co.


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Absolute crap. Darkcloud is right. I didn't get banned because I warned people not to post there.
Ming interceded with MarkG for me.



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Free the OT from the sticky Karen Mills Thread!

[AustralianJeremy]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by GP on 12-20-2000 10:29 AM</font>
AJ, wasn't it Jeszencka who you were fighting when you got banned. gotta keep the loonies (err...fine upstanding young posters, I mean) properly labeled...
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Don't think so. I think Black Dragon had replaced MJ by then (I still reckon they're the same person), and BD petitioned MarkG to ban me. They were going to let me go originally, because they realised that it was a parody, but BD kicked up such a huge stink that they reconsidered. Oh yes, MJ an I used to argue like anything. (The little fascist.) Wonder why he stopped posting on Apolyton?

[DarkCloud]

Dang Chaos, when was the last time you were able to post for more than 2 weeks?

a loooong time ago, DC

[Comrade Dan]

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</font>Absolute crap. Darkcloud is right. I didn't get banned because I warned people not to post there.
Ming interceded with MarkG for me.


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Your sig disagrees with you, Trollboy.

[DarkCloud]

MarkG-

were ContradictioN and that other guy permabanned or just banned for about a month due to the insults in the Civ III forum?