Have you ever been banned from a forum?

orraloon

Didn't vtech (using his or his missus' names, I forget the detail) surface running some crypto scam scheme out of Dubai? Would fit his profile.

Stevo_666

orraloon said:

Didn't vtech (using his or his missus' names, I forget the detail) surface running some crypto scam scheme out of Dubai? Would fit his profile.

Something like that, yep. He disappeared from here sharpish once his activities became known.

veronese68

Stevo_666 said:

orraloon said:

Didn't vtech (using his or his missus' names, I forget the detail) surface running some crypto scam scheme out of Dubai? Would fit his profile.

Something like that, yep. He disappeared from here sharpish once his activities became known.

Had he been a mod he could have deleted the thread and banned the person that started it to hide from their wrongdoing like someone else did.

Stevo_666

veronese68 said:

Stevo_666 said:

orraloon said:

Didn't vtech (using his or his missus' names, I forget the detail) surface running some crypto scam scheme out of Dubai? Would fit his profile.

Something like that, yep. He disappeared from here sharpish once his activities became known.

Had he been a mod he could have deleted the thread and banned the person that started it to hide from their wrongdoing like someone else did.

Sounds like they managed to pick some wrong'uns back in the day.

DeVlaeminck

Once got threatened with a ban here for messing up photos on a bike for sale post. It was when you had to link to images hosted elsewhere. I remember thinking at the time this is ridiculous - I seem to remember I was given a time limit to fix the post or I'd be banned.

I just think most forum mods confirm the findings of the Stanford prison experiment (or whatever uni it was).

Do we even have mods on the forum now - I assume someone must remove offensive posts and spam but it seems to be very much a lighter touch.

Never actually been banned from any forum - nearly got a Facebook ban for a joke which involved shooting farmers - i mean it wasn't even offensive.

kingstongraham

Spam gets removed when it gets flagged by 5 different users, so disappears pretty quickly through self policing.

TheBigBean

kingstongraham said:

Spam gets removed when it gets flagged by 5 different users, so disappears pretty quickly through self policing.

Wish they could extend this to other flags. 10 votes to sticky makes a sticky. 5 flags for offensive posts etc.

orraloon

There aren't any active mods on here now are there? Recall there was an admin type user id occasionally showing. But just auto response to flagging now. The spambots keep posting away, like that 'samanthanichollsnnnn' one.

briantrumpet

orraloon said:

There aren't any active mods on here now are there? Recall there was an admin type user id occasionally showing. But just auto response to flagging now. The spambots keep posting away, like that 'samanthanichollsnnnn' one.

Hadn't twigged that it was auto response for multiple flagging. TBH, it's probably just as well that they don't feel the need to put much effort into the forum, given the limited number of active users here, which wouldn't translate well into income in return for hosting it. Not quite in the Twitter or FB league.

kingstongraham

I can't think of any offensive posts recently. Unless hero worship counts, obviously.