Digital Point banned me!!!

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by Atom

No. I was kidding.

hihihi... sorry Atom...

[speedyturtle]

Well that is retarded, as long as you are not spamming and following the forum rules it shouldnt ban you what if my mrs wanna have an account in the same forums? they gonna ban both of us seems a bit silly.


SPEEDY
enjoy

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by gUrLaLiEn

guys just an FYI, im already unbanned at digital point...

funny things was, one of the mods looked up on my account and she said that she couldn't find any duplicates accounts.. confusing huh?!?! so why the hell they banned me???

anyway, thank you very much guys for replying tot his thread and for the support... i really appreciated it

Mistakes *do* sometimes happen. As someone pointed out, the sheer number of users your company has using the same IP address and promoting the same things put that IP block into suspect (some of those users bordering on their posts being nothing more than spam/trash). I haven't looked *too* much into it, but I'm guessing that one (or more) of the users at your company had their accounts rightfully terminated for spamming, then at the same time, a proactive sweep was done to try to eliminate anything else that could be eliminated at the same time, with your account being accidentally caught up in that. So yes... sometimes users are caught up in internal sweeps of "bad guys" based on the company they keep.

Whoever thinks simply having a duplicate IP address at Digital Point will get them banned, is mistaken (if that were the case, the system could just auto-ban people). There's more to it than that.

Originally Posted by pctec

As far as banning goes... you have to put their tough attuitude into perspective...
Threads: 205,735, Posts: 2,033,480, Members: 52,754, Active Members: 19,214

I'm not defending nor condoning but if you had to run a forum that big you would be very intolerant as well. I can only imagine how fast it "could" get out of control.

This is an unfortunate fact... I think we do a pretty good job at controlling the spam (which is crazy if you could see what we see). We do have a tough attitude on spamming (and other things)... if a user does something that is blatantly wrong (spamming for example), they aren't going to get a warning or 2nd chance or anything else.

"Hey, can you please not spam your Viagra ads in my forum? Thanks..."

"Oh sure, no problem... I didn't know it wasn't allowed, sorry about that."

Right. {rolls eyes}

...but at the same time if do make a mistake, it will be corrected.

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Mistakes *do* sometimes happen. As someone pointed out, the sheer number of users your company has using the same IP address and promoting the same things put that IP block into suspect (some of those users bordering on their posts being nothing more than spam/trash). I haven't looked *too* much into it, but I'm guessing that one (or more) of the users at your company had their accounts rightfully terminated for spamming, then at the same time, a proactive sweep was done to try to eliminate anything else that could be eliminated at the same time, with your account being accidentally caught up in that. So yes... sometimes users are caught up in internal sweeps of "bad guys" based on the company they keep.

Whoever thinks simply having a duplicate IP address at Digital Point will get them banned, is mistaken (if that were the case, the system could just auto-ban people). There's more to it than that.

This is an unfortunate fact... I think we do a pretty good job at controlling the spam (which is crazy if you could see what we see). We do have a tough attitude on spamming (and other things)... if a user does something that is blatantly wrong (spamming for example), they aren't going to get a warning or 2nd chance or anything else.

"Hey, can you please not spam your Viagra ads in my forum? Thanks..."

"Oh sure, no problem... I didn't know it wasn't allowed, sorry about that."

Right. {rolls eyes}

...but at the same time if do make a mistake, it will be corrected.

hmmm... now that WAS the explanation i was waiting... i was banned because they think i have multiple accounts... period... no further explanation... i did sent a message explaining my side but no one dared to reply...

so here... thanks Shawn for the explanation... appreciated it!

[Nintendo]

Originally Posted by digitalpoint

Mistakes *do* sometimes happen.

And that's why when some one does complain about some one being banned, or uses the
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/sendmessage.php
form like he did I think a few times, a mod should look in to it again. I'm guessing most SPAMMers don't try to get another member to get them unbanned, or even use the contact form. And if they keep buging members to get them unbanned and they really did break the rules, then they should probably get exposed, like what Cheap SEO Services got!!!!

[kmzeron]

lol , I'm banned too there ! Today my ban will expire !

You have been banned due to infractions.

Date the ban will be lifted: Jan 16th 2007, 10:04 pm

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by kmzeron

lol , I'm banned too there ! Today my ban will expire !

lol... how long have you been banned and what's the cause?

[kmzeron]

I think 12 days ! The reason ... ? I don't know exactly ... but I suppose that I was replaying on too many topics opened in the Solicitations & Announcements section ! I don't know ... maybe someone can tell me !

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by kmzeron

I think 12 days ! The reason ... ? I don't know exactly ... but I suppose that I was replaying on too many topics opened in the Solicitations & Announcements section ! I don't know ... maybe someone can tell me !

lol... you got banned but you don't know the reason??? hahaha... i was like that...

[kmzeron]

As I say when I try to login this is the message :

You have been banned due to infractions.

Date the ban will be lifted: Jan 16th 2007, 10:04 pm

How an user can know the reason ?

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by kmzeron

As I say when I try to login this is the message :



How an user can know the reason ?

haven't you received any email from them telling you that you're banned? maybe you could send them a message and asked why the hell are you banned? ooopppsss... bad suggestion, they'll not reply to your message... they're too busy doing something else

[kmzeron]

I think I received an automatical e-mail from them but there wasn't specified any reason ! I hope they will not ban me forever because I'm posting in that forum ! lol

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by kmzeron

I think I received an automatical e-mail from them but there wasn't specified any reason ! I hope they will not ban me forever because I'm posting in that forum ! lol

yeah... i hope so too... you know what, i got a red infraction because someone didn't like what i posted... cool huh...

[kmzeron]

lol , I think the owners and moderators must to have a meeting where to talk about this bans !

[gUrLaLiEn]

Originally Posted by kmzeron

lol , I think the owners and moderators must to have a meeting where to talk about this bans !

that's nice! how i wish they'll do that...

[kmzeron]

I have found the e-mail from DP. This was the reason :

Reason:
-------
Running Up Post Count/Post Has No Value

[Nintendo]

Originally Posted by kmzeron

How an user can know the reason ?

Look at
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/usercp.php
it always shows the reason.

[kmzeron]

Now I'm unbanned ! My latest (5) infractions received are with this reason : Running Up Post Count/Post Has No Value
Can I post again ? Or I'll be banned again ?

[meRn]

I was banned for no reason too. I do have two accounts and I guess both of them are banned as well, what's wrong with having two accounts.

DP isn't worth the hassle anyway, so long DP. I will DIGG about this.

Glad that there are lots of us stepping out of the shadow, hopefully this will get digged to the first page and knock some sense into Shawn, don't forget Shawn that you're nobody without your members, you may have a couple mySQL hosting businesses but that's about it.

[VV Associates]

Private Jan 6th 2007 10:23 pm Feb 5th 2007 10:23 pm 1 Running Up Post Count

I got this Infractions from DP. There is no thread is private. I am confused I have nothing start this kind of thread. Whats up with DP?