Banned!

robgmun · 13 Jan 2021 at 02:01

I remember getting banned by the ***** at The Digital Fix a few years ago for daring to argue for Brexit.

They were just a bunch of 'right-on' wet losers that ended up running the site into the ground. I just popped my head in to see if they were even still a thing and they only have like 12 users still posting and the place is practically dead.

Roadrunner_668 · 13 Jan 2021 at 20:46

ooh i dont think ive ever read them i just go by what i see other people say so i know swearing is a no and videos with swearing are usually a no and mentioning competitors is a no

apart from that not sure ha ha

ill ahve a nosey !

ShiWarrior · 13 Jan 2021 at 20:51

Feek said:
It would be quite funny to suspend everyone in this thread for twenty minutes or so

including you ?

oh and now me as well

Feek · 13 Jan 2021 at 20:54

ShiWarrior said:
including you ?

I tried to ban myself once.

Remember when google broke a few weeks ago because someone googled google?

Now remember when the forums went down for a couple of days last year?

ShiWarrior · 13 Jan 2021 at 20:55

LOL

oh Dear, now we know what happened!

Roadrunner_668 · 13 Jan 2021 at 20:59

Feek said:
I tried to ban myself once.

Remember when google broke a few weeks ago because someone googled google?

Now remember when the forums went down for a couple of days last year?

imagine if google actually went down whenever someone googled google

it would never be up ! ha ha

Narj · 13 Jan 2021 at 21:48

At least on here I normally look through banned people's content and get a bit confused. I don't know if their last post got deleted or what but sometimes there's no obvious clue as to why they were banned (at least with the "old-school" crowd).

Will Gill · 14 Jan 2021 at 08:09

Narj said:
At least on here I normally look through banned people's content and get a bit confused. I don't know if their last post got deleted or what but sometimes there's no obvious clue as to why they were banned (at least with the "old-school" crowd).

Generally speaking, a post worthy of a suspension or indeed a banning wouldn't remain in view, if it did I would expect it to be edited to remove the rule breaking content.

Demon · 14 Jan 2021 at 08:26

SexyGreyFox said:
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, in fact with the experience of moderating MM over the decades there will be a genuine reason for it.

I've fallen foul of MM a couple of times inadvertantly, but understand the need to mod it strictly, the only genuine criticism is they apply rules to moderation that aren't in their guidelines (handling of images being one) which is frustrating but did not lead to a ban that time..

FoxEye said:
Resetera? That place is always in the news, for some drama or other.

I remember when neoGAF imploded due to the scandal of it's owner, and I did jump ship to resetera, however I only frequented there infrequently and hadn't been back for a year until a month or so ago looking for info on Cyberpunk 2077..

Resetera has just gone bat crap insane, I'm all for being a decent human being , but this is their instruction in the first post of the Official 2077 thread for discussing the GAME..

This game is highly controversial for reasons outlined here as well as within the opening post. A significant part the discussion in this thread is likely to revolve around CDPR's transphobia and transphobia in the game itself. That discussion must be given space here; there will be zero tolerance for trolls or agitators. Ignore these following guidelines at your own risk:

Do not dismiss or handwave concerns of transphobia or announce that they don’t bother you.

If you respond to a member's concerns by telling them how much you love the game, you will be banned.

Outcast440 · 14 Jan 2021 at 11:12

Try Mumsnet - I reckon half of the posters on here would get banned within a day!

Loagi · 14 Jan 2021 at 11:25

Also known as Karen-net

Roadrunner_668 · 14 Jan 2021 at 13:13

is there a dads net? ha ha

it would be funny if there was and there was tension between the two

adolf hamster · 14 Jan 2021 at 15:56

Roadrunner_668 said:
imagine if google actually went down whenever someone googled google

it would never be up ! ha ha

it would be funny if google's response to typing google into google was a fake 404 page.

or just a page saying "nice try"

given their penchant for comedic gimmicks i'm surprised they havent done it.

Blackjack Davy · 14 Jan 2021 at 15:59

Outcast440 said:
Try Mumsnet - I reckon half of the posters on here would get banned within a day!

You've been banned already I take it?

Malevolence · 14 Jan 2021 at 16:02

Blackjack Davy said:
You've been banned already I take it?

Banned on Mumsnet a few times here.

OldKitMan · 14 Jan 2021 at 16:31

robgmun said:
I remember getting banned by the ***** at The Digital Fix a few years ago for daring to argue for Brexit.

They were just a bunch of 'right-on' wet losers that ended up running the site into the ground. I just popped my head in to see if they were even still a thing and they only have like 12 users still posting and the place is practically dead.

Was better when it was 'The DVD Forums'.

robgmun · 14 Jan 2021 at 16:57

OldKitMan said:
Was better when it was 'The DVD Forums'.

Yeah, it was about when they changed their name when it just had this weird downward spiral into wokeness even before wokeness was a thing! It was like Twitter is now and by 2016 it reached peak retardedness. It was hard leaving the place as it was the very first forum I signed up to back in 2001 but looking back it did me a favor. I can see now just how pathetic they were.

A very telling moment was when the Hi-Def wars were raging and a vast majority of people there were convinced that HD-DVD was going to win out despite extremely obvious signs it was going to be Blu-ray. When they announced HD-DVD was dead and all the studios moved over to BD the weeping and gnashing of teeth was like when Diana died :rolleyes:

I was banned for a week for telling them "I told you so"

Roadrunner_668 · 14 Jan 2021 at 18:48

adolf hamster said:
it would be funny if google's response to typing google into google was a fake 404 page.

or just a page saying "nice try"

given their penchant for comedic gimmicks i'm surprised they havent done it.

ha ha you're right it seems like a them thing to do

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 14 Jan 2021 at 19:05

The worst platform is Reddit. So many sub Reddit’s are nothing more than echo chambers.

My Reddit account is banned from so many subs now it’s a joke. No surprise conspiracy theories, racism and hate etc are so prevalent.

Roadrunner_668 · 14 Jan 2021 at 21:43

the hobbyist communities can be good on reddit and the fanbases for some things but a lot of rubbish on there too

some of it just idiotic or vile i know there used to be a pro antivax community i dont know if thats still there lots of very pervy ones too