Why Were you Banned

[phoenixcager]

I believe this is the thread in question:

http://www.an.i-dentity.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/012204.html
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[Dissident Aggressor]

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...

[phoenixcager]

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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