Was I banned? and if so why?

[Nubclear]

Ming, please close this thread. I'm speaking on behalf of Siro, who is obviously not in his right mind.

[Hydey]

this is alot of carry on about nothing.

At least we should all know the rules about uploading now.

[Frozzy]

I hear a foghorn:

BOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG...

[Panag]

Originally posted by Frozzy
I hear a foghorn:

BOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG...

hi ,

, well you could write a news piece about this , .....

have a nice day

[Frozzy]

You have the OTF for idiotic news stories... don't want Poly to be a banana news service now, do we

[Sirotnikov]

fine
close this thread.

panag will have one less place to write "have a nice day"

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
panag will have one less place to write "have a nice day"

Why take out our hostilities on Panag?

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
(3) The rules changes to Uploading should be more publicised.
(4) The rules to Uploading should be fixed and specificated to begin with.

Gee, you see, with common sense I would at least expect that they have intended the uploading service for temporarily locating game files such as e.g. saved games and such files, not your personal files, music, illegal copyright files, etc. Just my personal opinion. Anyway, if you need to host files, do it elsewhere than Apolyton, because you basically steal bandwith for illegal or otherwise non essential files.

[mrmitchell]

No one was using illegal copyright files IIRC. IIRC it was some kind of a test for the early days that was forgotten.

But you've got the point with your second idea--better to just stay unbanned.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
Since niether Locutus, nor I nor many other people even suspected we were doing something wrong, I see no reason to actually enact a punishment.

What the hell do I have to do with anything?

If you didn't know you did something wrong, you obviously didn't pay attention very well. When the upload feature was announced in the news, announcement and forum thread, a link the the FAQ was also included, which is very specific in telling you what can and can't be uploaded ("Only files related to the games we cover are accepted"). This same link is also present on the main upload page. Also, in the official forum thread of this upload feature, the very first question, asked by DrSpike, was what was allowed to be uploaded. Markos's reply was quite clear:

civ* files, civ* images, civ* saved games, etc

* civ = civ1/2/3, ctp1/2, smac, moo1/2/3, ron, etc

This was when the upload feature was still in beta and hadn't been announced yet in any other place than the Apolyton forum. So the rules in this respect were quite clear from the very beginning. Since this first announcement, Markos made probably half a dozen similar statements in that same and other related threads and places (including the FAQ, which has existed and remained unchanged since the official release and announcement of the feature).

If you've missed all this, it might be wise to look at yourself first in determining the cause for your (intentional or unintentional) ignorance.

[Ming]

Nahhh.. they are too busy trying to blame somebody else and demand they don't get treated so rudely when they break the rules... typical

[mrmitchell]

Ming, are you trying to wait for enough evidence to get a -10% too, or are you just being sadistic and waiting for the right time to close just as the argument was heating up?

[Method]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
(2) They probably should have been notified why.

indeed. having to inquire about one's ban is irritating. with markos it was like pulling teeth trying to find out WTF was going on

[spartak]

Is this thread still open?

[Skanky Burns]

You would think this would become a +1 feeding area. I can't understand why this is still open.