Blue Emu appreciation thread

Do care to tell why (or do you know why) you were banned

I certainly know why (and yes, it was just a crazy mix-up)... but since I'm a member of the Moderator-run Community Defenders, I'm checking with them to see whether I'm under NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) before I discuss the matter in the public forum.

I hope I'm permitted to tell the story, because it's hilarious.

Welcome back!! @blueemu

Yes!!

I'm so happy to see you come back

Hooray, glad you are back! 

   ---   Yes he seemed very nice.

Rumors of my death have been somewhat exaggerated.

lol

I hope to hear it too. Make a forum for it or something (if you are allowed to tell it).

   ---   Aha, glad to see you back  lol.

OK, I've received permission to explain how this craziness came about.

Hold onto your hats.

Months ago, I was invited to join a club here on chess(dot)com. Just an ordinary club, with a name so ordinary that I can't even recall it.

I was already a member of twenty-odd other clubs, and I'm not really a club sort of person... I don't take much part in club activities. But joining is usually simpler than tactfully refusing, so I agreed to join, on the condition that I was not assigned any role or responsibility (such as recruiting or coordinating).

Some time later, the club Admin apparently had a serious problem with the Moderating staff here on chess(dot)com, because he/she changed the club name to "#### all the Moderators especially that little weasel ###Specific Moderator's Name###". He/she also changed the club's profile picture to something offensive.

At the time, I wasn't aware of this because I just ignore almost all of my clubs, and don't even glance at the messages and alerts that I get from them.

Then he got banned, or closed his account... leaving the club without an owner or Admin. The chess(dot)com software Bot doesn't allow this... every club must have an owner and an Admin.

So the Bot picked a new owner/Admin. Guess who got picked? Probably because of my 2012 join date, which presumably put me at the top of the list of candidates.

I was still blissfully unaware of all this, because the Bot had NOT asked me "Do you want to be the new Owner/Admin of 'Club With Obscene and Offensive Name (Y/N)?". It just assigned the club to me, without any Y/N prompt.

Then somebody... a Mod?... a Bot?... some random person visiting my profile?... noticed that I was the Owner and Admin of what was obviously some sort of nasty Hater's club.

The rest you know. I was kicked out of Community Defenders, and banned from the chess(dot)com website.

I could probably have straightened it all out fairly quickly by creating an alt account... The_Ghost_Of_Blue_Emu, perhaps... but I hadn't yet done anything wrong (as I saw it) and I was reluctant to violate the ToS with a multi-account.

So I just stayed Banned, contacted Support by e-mail, and waited it out. It took four days.

Basically... a case of mistaken identity. I got "actioned" instead of the perpetrator, because the perpetrator was gone and I had inherited the mess.

Hilarious, no?

Good thing you didn't. It didn't real work out for @ghost_of_pushwood

lol interesting

Damn, I never join a club, and block everyone who invites me to their club

In a sad way that only folks here would understand. Welcome back. 

Kafka couldn't have explained it better.

It was a surreal experience, agreed.

We like to call it practical absurdity.

Welcome back from *The Twilight Zone* 👀