How many times have you been banned? - Page 2

Lorizael · August 20, 2002, 00:57

Wow, only having been on Apolyton for a year has caused me to miss quite a bit. I know about Black Sunday... but what are Area 25 and the newscaster bannings (though I think that one might be self explanatory)?

Eli · August 20, 2002, 01:01

Area 25, 2-3 more bans by MtG... And I think there were a couple more by Markos. 5-9.

Everything except Area 25 was, of course, unjustified.

KrazyHorse · August 20, 2002, 01:01

Which one's Black Sunday?

Black Saturday's the one where Ming left a thread open ad promptly had it spammed, right?

Skanky Burns · August 20, 2002, 01:03

And so is Black Sunday to those in certain time-zones.

KrazyHorse · August 20, 2002, 01:06

Ah. I thought there was a universally recognised designation for the event...

MOBIUS · August 20, 2002, 01:08

I wonder if the Mods keep banning and PCR stats?

Ming · August 20, 2002, 01:12

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Originally posted by Frogger
Ah. I thought there was a universally recognised designation for the event...

It's been called both... the real action took place on saturday... but the Bannings were announced on Sunday in a thread I titled "Black Sunday".

Bosh · August 20, 2002, 01:16

The newscaster was a bunch of bannings of a rash of DLs with newscaster names started by History049, now known as Bob Dornan IIRC. I posted "what will this accomplish?" as Dan Rather with ten spaces tagged onto the end (you could end names in spaces in those days which made impersonating people possible which GS took advantage of for a bit) and got banned too (gottam IPs

). Was waaaaay back in winter '99, Febuary IIRC.

KrazyHorse · August 20, 2002, 01:20

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Originally posted by Boshko
(you could end names in spaces in those days which made impersonating people possible which GS took advantage of for a bit)

I tried that trick when I first got here.

Ming · August 20, 2002, 01:23

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Originally posted by MOBIUS

I wonder if the Mods keep banning and PCR stats?

I still have my logs from the old days... and we do keep a ban log in the private forum

While my original logs are missing the really early days when I first started as a mod, they are funny to look back at

Alexander's Horse · August 20, 2002, 01:28

I'm not telling

Urban Ranger · August 20, 2002, 01:37

I am an Apolyton saint

notyoueither · August 20, 2002, 01:59

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Originally posted by Lorizael
*shakes head* First week at Apolyton. Started my own thread as soon as I got on because I was so angry that my registration took three weeks. Wasn't a mad thread, just a thread by some newbie on the Civ 3 General forum. Some princes looking for custom avatars got into it, and slowly it turned into a spamfest. I joined in.

My banning words were, "I am the SPAMINATOR!"

100% PCR, one week banning. And oddly, I cared more about the PCR than the banning then, thankfully I've changed.

That was very impressive. I think the only value was the count down by the minute til Civ 3 was released. 6 pages of that and things less useful. then...

Quote:

No one can be me!

I am master of the SPAM!!!!!!

followed by some other poster, then...

Quote:

I am the SPAMINATOR!!!!!

Then on page 7...

Quote:

I have a secret *spam* and that is that *spam* I have no *spam* life so I can *spam* just *spam* sit here all *spam* day and *spam* spam all I *spam* want.

Oh I think I *spam* already said that.

Well smammit!

It then attempted to evolve(?) into a drinking game thread. Then MtG pounced (man, that's one nice cat for not PCRing the lot of you).

I especially like how many times the spam song appears in some version of it's full length in that thread.

Zoid · August 20, 2002, 02:02

I got banned for a week once for posting a somewhat rude picture and for personal insults. Thankfully I haven´t had any PCR´s though

Lorizael · August 20, 2002, 02:18

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Originally posted by notyoueither

That was very impressive. I think the only value was the count down by the minute til Civ 3 was released. 6 pages of that and things less useful. then...

It then attempted to evolve(?) into a drinking game thread. Then MtG pounced (man, that's one nice cat for not PCRing the lot of you).

I especially like how many times the spam song appears in some version of it's full length in that thread.

*sigh* I actually tried to slow down the thread near the end. And it wasn't entirely me. Each day I'd come home from school and my thread would have grown. And I think smammit was supposed to be spammit.

Please don't bring that up again, lol, it's embarrasing. Actual quotes from that long archived thread...

But what is Area 25?

notyoueither · August 20, 2002, 02:28

Sorry, you brought it up. It rang a bell, since at the time I was mostly a timid lurker and recalled seeing it.

I'm not sure, but some numbered thread was when Spink and YYYH got perma-banned (I think).

Then around April 1 there was some other number incident that resulted in some people being banned. It got tied in with other 'jokes' some of which turned out to be jokes, that one not.

The Area 'number's refer to hidden forums that the adventurous sometimes find and have some fun in. They get caught, they get banned. I believe.

I think that may be it, but someone more knowledgable than I will correct me, I'm sure.

ixnay · August 20, 2002, 02:32

Spink and YYYH got permabanned for invading some other forum (something to do with age of empires?

)

Docfeelgood · August 20, 2002, 02:32

I have never been banned ( as far as I know)

come close tho

Skanky Burns · August 20, 2002, 02:34

Who is YYYH now, anyway?
I remember him and Imran from the first time I posted here (all of about 3 posts around the time SMAC was released).

I know who Spink is now.

Lorizael · August 20, 2002, 02:38

Quote:

Originally posted by notyoueither
Sorry, you brought it up. It rang a bell, since at the time I was mostly a timid lurker and recalled seeing it.

I'm not sure, but some numbered thread was when Spink and YYYH got perma-banned (I think).

Then around April 1 there was some other number incident that resulted in some people being banned. It got tied in with other 'jokes' some of which turned out to be jokes, that one not.

The Area 'number's refer to hidden forums that the adventurous sometimes find and have some fun in. They get caught, they get banned. I believe.

I think that may be it, but someone more knowledgable than I will correct me, I'm sure.

Oh I don't actually care if you mention, that's what the lol was for.

And thanks all for the other info.

Al B. Sure! · August 20, 2002, 02:40

Giant Squid invaded AoK Heaven... nothing happened to him

notyoueither · August 20, 2002, 02:56

Quote:

Originally posted by ixnay37
Spink and YYYH got permabanned for invading some other forum (something to do with age of empires?

)

Wasn't it the porn in Area 52(?) and the server owner (game stats?) demanding perma-ban? I've heard so many snippets here and there...

Robert Plomp · August 20, 2002, 04:06

I've been banned twice.
1. black saturday
2. I found the flag- uh - loophole.

Quote:

Ming: It had nothing to do with your post.
A simple rule of thumb when it comes to MarkG...

DON'T **** WITH THE SITE!
Bad... Very, Very Bad

HEY, I DIDN'T **** WITH THE SITE!!!!
I can't help it that my countries name is "style=display:none>Moderator<br>Jan 1870<div id="
Markos gave us a flag option, and I filled something in it.

Just face it, I got two very very very very unfair bans. Anyway, fortunately Markos admitted that and said that my next two bans wouldn't count. (I have to free bans, that means.)

never got any pcr. but that's probably because I don't care about spamming and postcounts anyway.

EDIT:

Quote:

DON'T **** WITH THE SITE!

I never found that rule in the rules-faq.
maybe a good idea to post it

EDIT2:
Someone PM me that posting the code might lead to a banning. That's why I want to add that I didn't post all it takes to 'hack'

in another title. Thus it's not complete. In fact it's far from complete, since the hardest part is the part to PUT THE CODE THERE. Everyone can come up with HTML tags, but you need to place the HTML on the right place. I didn't post that. Thought I should make that clear before some mod bans me.

Ps. if anybody is interested in it...........

EDIT3: Markos, not only the flag-field has that loophole, ALL user control fields do have it. I could tell you how to fix it, if you were using a lotus domino forum, but since you aren't, deal with it since you can't fix it. That's the way internet forums work.

Lemmy · August 20, 2002, 04:14

only got a 100% PCR when i just made it to warlord, and shortly after that i had a thread closed...which was related to my PCR...

Jon Miller · August 20, 2002, 04:14

I have never gotten a PCR

Jon Miller

Hydey · August 20, 2002, 05:17

As the son of AH, I am immune to such actions.

*sees Ming coming*

Solly · August 20, 2002, 06:40

I'm such a saint!

(probably somewhere around 20 as Ming has a vendetta against me, and I get banned for things other people only get warnings for, or for invented things in order to spare the blushes of his brother)

Robert Plomp · August 20, 2002, 06:46

haha, Bod, the reason you got banned for last time was indeed even more laughable than mine

we should make a honorary list of most pathatic bans.

I nominate Boddington's ban because Ming banned him first for something he did not do, and after Ming found out he did not do it, he found a new reason and banned him for a picture that Ming never saw, but was told about by rah, while rah thought the picture wasn't bad enough to ban, and said that publicly. Oh well, it was laughable

Solly · August 20, 2002, 06:51

Yes, absolutely pathetic IMO.

Mr. President · August 20, 2002, 07:25

I've never been banned as far as I know.

The longest I've been away from Apolyton in the last couple of months is five days, so I might have been restricted for a day in the middle of that and never known about it. But that seems unlikely.