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Why was <user X> banned?
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Mar 16, 2015
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#3
MindWalk wrote:
pawnsolo2 (and now, apparently, pawnsolo3) was just banned, and nobody knows why.
time for pawnsolo4
What about the awesome worn Braun? He'd just started making lots of friends.
You mean Halamede-von-bonehead?
Yeah, everyone loved him.
Mar 16, 2015
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#6
He was a longtime, active member. He should have been warned about whatever transgression before being banned willy-nilly.
Recently another member was banned because she sent too many messages in a short time and triggered some antispam bot. Maybe this is what hapened?
We've seen this thread before.
The transgressor SWEARS he didn't do it.
Then we get a 3 page explanation, a 2 page apology. I want to see tears.
We should get an app for that. ERIK!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, MW, but I thought pawnsolo was previously banned for cheating. If so, this appears to be the most likely reason.
^I won't be posting any notes.
I know of 3 threads that got locked this week.
MT; you played 1 game, and 5 people posted on your wall?? Dam, I'm getting old.
Mar 16, 2015
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#12
He *did* send a lot of very short notes in quick succession, he said. If there's a bot that treats that as spamming and bans the user, that could be it.
I dont even see his account anymore ...
[Pawnsolo2 was closed by the anti-spam bot. Perhaps this will be cleared up like others have lately. Staff will determine. Mod.]
Last year, Kohai mentioned that's a possibility.
MEGA_TROLL wrote:
I think if you get banned once they are probably able to find out if you create a new account over the same computer and the same internet connection. So if he got banned once it is understandable that his new account got closed again. If this would not be the case then everybody could just create a new email adress and claim he is someone else. Then it would be close to useless to ban someone. So I guess if pawnsolo4 appears it won`t be for long.
It's actually quite easy to avoid detection. When you turn on your computer, you are usually assigned a new IP address. So that only leaves something like cookies in your browser. But those can be easily erased.
Mar 16, 2015
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#16
lulz. pawnsolo is a hack. the same crowd that were tickled by his antics are watching friends reruns as i type.
Until you identify the banner on the grassy knoll, you will never know the truth.
But his account has vanished.
I'm scared of the auto-bot.
Oh Yes, Be VERY VERY afraid.
pawnsolo2 (and now, apparently, pawnsolo3) was just banned, and nobody knows why. He says he wrote about another user's spamming threads (which that other user sort of does, though little enough that I wouldn't ban him for it) and got banned for that. I gather that cheating was not involved. We in Open Discussion are unhappy to have lost his posts and to have lost his presence, and we are wondering what happened--and we are especially unhappy at the possibility that *merely for complaining* someone could be banned. What happened?