Erroneous Bannings

[East Street Trader]

Well,I suppose I can just about follow that banning someone for abusive or otherwise unacceptable posting (on a site which goes in for enforcing civilised conduct, that is) has little sting when the person banned has a DL and just goes on visiting the site in his or her unbanned persona.

Dimly I can guess at some fun to be had.

Is the answer for Nadia/Tear to re-register under some comparable name from a different computer?

SG2. ACOL is a games site (Alpha Centauri origins I think) where quite a few Apolytoners hang out. Ming lets his hair down there, for one. It's off topic goes in for quick back chat and one liners. It's a free for all, no noticeable moderation. Not nasty in tone or content though.

A thing that puzzled me is that there is some committed games' player discussion and the one time I visited, a few days back, I did a quick post, forgetting for a moment that I'd never registered with the site. The post nevertheless promptly appeared - and with my Apolyton sig attached??

Anyway, I suppose there is some link between the two sites. Came as a surprise though. Felt a touch paranoid for a second.
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[Brian the Bug Master]

Now I am surpised at that! There is no link (MarkG will confirm). We certainly don't exchange poster information between the two sites. The only link is that many of the same people frequent the sites. Are you sure you didn't register in a dream (besides sigs are disabled on ACOL).

That's not a bad idea of providing proof. I don't know if that would be acceptable to MarkG or not.

[added this] BTW, that's one of the fairest descriptions I have seen of ACOL from a non-regular. I think it sums things pretty well - a much more balanced description than some.
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[SilverDragon]

I am confused. How could JETW be a dl of BTBM if JETW was here first?


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[Brian the Bug Master]

JEtW wasn't here first . I was - under another name.

[Brian the Bug Master]

East Street Trader,

I did a search on ACOL and found no trace of you. I think you are mistaken. Maybe it was another part of Apolyton.

MarkG,

I spoke with Nadia on the phone tonight and got a fair degree of hassle as she is hopping mad at me as this is all, indirectly, my fault. I told her you were looking into it but she wants to talk to you to sort this out. Can you send her your number(n.levitskaya@talk21.com) or shall I send you hers?

[TCO]

If you are going to have two people posting from the same computer, you might not want to be a repeated DL offender. How can people tell when you're being honest now?

[Scouse Gits]

EST - Thank you for the ACOL information. I thought I was missing out on some bridge talk!

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[Brian the Bug Master]

"If you are going to have two people posting from the same computer, you might not want to be a repeated DL offender. How can people tell when you're being honest now?"

Nadia now lives elsewhere, the problem should not recurr.

[TCO]

That's one kind of answer...

[Brian the Bug Master]

She's now got her own (shared) apartment, own computer, own ISP. I cannot envisage the problem recurring. Even if she visits our place, I'm not letting her near my computer and getting all this nonsense again.

[TCO]

Umm...that's not the point...

[Brian the Bug Master]

So what is the point that you are making? You think that her being banned is justified.

[Ming]

It's being looked into. What would probably help would be if she emailed MarkG from the email address at her new location

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[Brian the Bug Master]

Thanks Ming,

I'll pass the message on and get her to do that - means I'll get more grief I suppose.

[Brian the Bug Master]

Sorry, you've still lost me!

This thread is about sorting something out not dissecting the past. I admit to the double logins that, indeed, were double logins.

However, Nadia is not a double login. She is a friend of my wife and myself. She was in need of help, she stayed at our place, she used the computer (I even helped her register here). In my book you help people when they have need - not invent rules to make helping difficult.

So, what do you suggest, we have her shot at dawn as an inconvenience to custom and practise or what?