Banned person

Tricky · #1 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 02:56 AM

I received a message of someone nicked Turing a little while ago. Hi, how are you doing, nothing more. I replied but never got an answer. I checked on this person's status just now and reads 'banned'.

I'm curious, what happened there?

Xandax · #2 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 03:32 AM

... the person have been banned for some reason.

I'm not familiar with the specific "nick", and while I could check up on it, it is not custom for us to discuss banning with non-involve people, in which case I would not disclose such information.

Often a banning are "public", however some violations do require us to delete and/or modify posts, which makes it less clear to the "public" why a person might have been banned. Some accounts get banned for advertisements, or linking to pornographic sites, piracy sites and so on - and it is custom for us to delete such threads.
And it could be the case with the account in question, but as said - we rarely discuss the specifics of a particular banning outside moderator/Buck.

Moonbiter · #3 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 04:52 AM

He sent me the same PM. "Hi. I'm new. How are you doing." He didn't have any posts to his name, only a link to a site on Buddhism.

DesR85 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 06:15 AM

This person also sent me a PM too a few days ago. I also replied back but never got a response.

Cuchulain82 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 07:55 AM

I got the same PM and thought it was pm spam. I didn't respond.

AvatarOfLight · #6 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 08:20 AM

I didn't get one

So sad

BuckGB · #7 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 08:57 AM

After multiple abuse notifications on this account, I went ahead and banned it. I'm not sure it was even a real person. From the looks of it, it was just a spambot designed to PM everyone at a forum with a link to some bizarre website.

Naffnuff · #8 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 09:58 AM

Oh yeah, that's right! First I thought the guy was just being nice, but when I saw the website, I thought, "This guy is trying to convert me or something!" Sort of nice in the soliciting way.

And to think I responded to his friendliness! I feel used!

Tricky · #9 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 10:18 AM

Well the link was in his or her signature. Awkward, but I have seen stranger things in signatures around here.

Naffnuff · #10 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tricky

Well the link was in his or her signature. Awkward, but I have seen stranger things in signatures around here.

Lol!

Xandax · #11 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 10:54 AM

Seeing as Buck has explained his actions et al, I'm closing this thread to avoid it getting turned off-topic.

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