How many forums have you been banned from?

[Lamb]

How many forums have you been banned from?

 

[Forgiven1]

None . Thankfully

 

[Lees]

How many forums have you been banned from?

I don't know. Quite a few.

Which brings up something I like to see on forums. When a person is banned the forum should make it known that they have been banned for such and such. There should be a place, a category, called 'Banned'.

That way people don't just wonder where you went, and why. And they know you just didn't leave. I have left several forums and I always tell them why for the same reasons.

Lees

 

[Josiah]

Two.

CatholicAnswers banned me. No warning, no hearing, no communication at all - just one day I found I could not access and saw I had been banned. I wrote to it via the contact email and (after much delay) was told I was "not constructive to the site" (the exact wording) but the moderator told me he had read the report on me and felt I could (should) appeal the decision and get it reversed. I decided not to. BTW, after I was banned, that was noted on every post - and so the users there viciously attacked me, ridiculed and condemned me since I could not reply: I considered that very unchristian and unfair.

ChristianForums also banned me (twice, actually). Both were eventually overturned. After the first reversal, I returned. After the second, I did not. I'm actually in good standing there but just don't post there anymore... and I forgot my password there. I probably haven't been there for a couple of years. BTW, I was also on staff there, as a Supervisor, and was fired - without notice or hearing - by an admin who was my official mentor and who had told me two weeks earlier that I was doing "excellent work" and he was "very proud" of me. Then he told me I was fired. It was a very controversial move and a LOT of staff wrote to Admin supporting me and asking for this to be overturned (some of those staffers came here but none are active). BTW, that staffer (my mentor) eventually wrote to me and apologized for how I was treated explaining it was political; I was a "sacrificial lamb" the Protestants could sacrifice me for "a greater good" but again, said what was done was wrong.

Some sites are VERY political.... admins and/or staff have an agenda and aggressively impose that - often without any sense of justice or fairness. At least CatholicAnswers was "up-front" and honest about that (I give it some credit for that). Rules are often extensive and those are oddly and unevenly applied.

I knew Lamb from CF. That was like 20 years ago! When she and Romanos started this site, she contacted me inviting me to join here - stressing to me that the _______ we'd experienced at CF would NEVER happen here... that rules would be few and intuitive, and those would be equally and evangelically applied... she would work HARD to ensure that. With that... I left were I was then active and moved to here.


I LOVE THIS SITE. It's quite unusual. Staff is GREAT. And for the most part, participants are respectful and a good contributors - willing to listen, to share, to learn. I deeply appreciate Lamb, Romanos and the staff here. And to my fellow posters here. Thank you!



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[Castle Church]

None, to be honest I don't really post in controversial ways on any forum I am a member at. I am not trying to brag, but I also have not be "actioned" for breaking the rules anywhere. I just don't generally see the point in pushing people to much online - it is a rare person that changes their mind after an online debate about anything.

 

[Messy3]

Christian forums because I read somewhere that the mods were atheist trolls and then I started to warn everyone, so they banned me.
Christian chat forums because they banned Snerf and I stood up for him, but it was forbidden to talk about bans.
Credible, a Dutch forum, because they banned a guy and I gave him my password to be able to talk back, which they did not appreciate. From 2 other Dutch forums I banned myself to protect myself, because there were some nasty people and the mod was always biking and banned noone, but he said: fix that yourself cause you're adults lol and then he'd just remove whole conversations, cause that was easier. Couldn't blame him for not wanting to babysit adults, but they also let a witch say what she wanted, because you have to be sweet as a christian and then I had enough of it and the other one was full of atheists and ex christians and that was quite a negative atmosphere.

 

[Castle Church]

Christian forums because I read somewhere that the mods were atheist trolls

That forums has it's issues, but the current moderators are most certainly not atheist trolls.

 

[Messy3]

That forums has it's issues, but the current moderators are most certainly not atheist trolls.

No lol that was just some weird conspiracy thing I found. But some were so extreme. I really thought: they're trolling, cause this cannot be. Well apparently it could. Why I believed it was because on that Dutch forum an atheist from the atheist forum pretended to be an extreme christian, cause he met a Jehovah's witness and wanted to save us. I immediately saw it was fake, cause he didn't know the texts and he was so over the top, but I didn't betray him. He later got banned there, so I went to their own forum to try save that bunch.

 

[tango]

I'm not sure if I've been banned from any. I think I was temporarily banned from a now defunct Christian forum I once helped admin but was removed for political reasons. After I left the forum voluntarily I believe I was banned but can't be sure.

 

[Lamb]

I don't know. Quite a few.

Which brings up something I like to see on forums. When a person is banned the forum should make it known that they have been banned for such and such. There should be a place, a category, called 'Banned'.

That way people don't just wonder where you went, and why. And they know you just didn't leave. I have left several forums and I always tell them why for the same reasons.

Lees

That would be absolutely humiliating to some people to see their account being shown as banned to the public. I can't do that to them.

 

[Stravinsk]

LOL. I've been banned from at least 5 forums. 3 of them religious forums, 2 of them on themes that have nothing to do with religion.

The reasons vary.

 

[Lees]

That would be absolutely humiliating to some people to see their account being shown as banned to the public. I can't do that to them.

Well, as many times as I have been banned I have never felt humiliated. I think at times it is more the other way around.

I have been on several forums where they at least put the word 'banned' under the avatar of the one banned.

Lees

 

[Messy3]

LOL. I've been banned from at least 5 forums. 3 of them religious forums, 2 of them on themes that have nothing to do with religion.

The reasons vary.

And the winner is...
Good old times with Bookwornworm or what was it. Then I also made a stalk account and a woman said: Watch out. You don't know who that is. It may be a dangerous person. Aaaaaah! I was really scared LOL.

 

[Josiah]

That would be absolutely humiliating to some people to see their account being shown as banned to the public. I can't do that to them.

As I shared above, a forum banned me and noted that on each of my posts - and THAT made me a target for all kinds of attacks, lies, rebukes, ridicules - to which I could not reply. I considered that very unfair and unchristian. I'm not sure how to handle this... yeah, it seems okay to note the poster no longer can post but then it should be a rule violation to respond to one of their posts since they can't respond.

 

[Messy3]

As I shared above, a forum banned me and noted that on each of my posts - and THAT made me a target for all kinds of attacks, lies, rebukes, ridicules - to which I could not reply. I considered that very unfair and unchristian. I'm not sure how to handle this... yeah, it seems okay to note the poster no longer can post but then it should be a rule violation to respond to one of their posts since they can't respond.

That's why I gave one guy my account.

 

[Lees]

As I shared above, a forum banned me and noted that on each of my posts - and THAT made me a target for all kinds of attacks, lies, rebukes, ridicules - to which I could not reply. I considered that very unfair and unchristian. I'm not sure how to handle this... yeah, it seems okay to note the poster no longer can post but then it should be a rule violation to respond to one of their posts since they can't respond.

I agree to a degree.

I do think the word 'banned' under the avatar is good for all to know.

I agree that when one is banned, then no replies should be made to the one banned, as they can no longer defend their argument.

With me, in several cases of being banned, it was never stated. But, all the moderators will know. And their friends on the forum will know. And it isn't long before some take advantage and get a last word or dig in.

Lees

 

[Lamb]

I agree to a degree.

I do think the word 'banned' under the avatar is good for all to know.

I agree that when one is banned, then no replies should be made to the one banned, as they can no longer defend their argument.

With me, in several cases of being banned, it was never stated. But, all the moderators will know. And their friends on the forum will know. And it isn't long before some take advantage and get a last word or dig in.

Lees

The easiest solution around that is to not break the rules.

 

[Josiah]

The easiest solution around that is to not break the rules.

Amen. BUT you assume that one will only be banned if they seriously violate rules. In NONE of my cases of being banned did I violate any rules.

In a good site - like CH - bans would ONLY be for persistent violation of rules, rules that are intuitive and fair, rules that are evenly and evangelically applied. But sites like CH are, in my experience, rare.



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[Messy3]

Amen. BUT you assume that one will only be banned if they seriously violate rules. In NONE of my cases of being banned did I violate any rules.

In a good site - like CH - bans would ONLY be for persistent violation of rules, rules that are intuitive and fair, rules that are evenly and evangelically applied. But sites like CH are, in my experience, rare.



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I got a warning on a christian forum for helping a guy who wanted to commit suicide. They can go climb a tree with those stupid rules. That was also why I believed they were atheist trolls. They would have banned Jesus from that forum for not keeping the rules.

 

[Albion]

Amen. BUT you assume that one will only be banned if they seriously violate rules. In NONE of my cases of being banned did I violate any rules.

Exactly right. In the forum that we're usually thinking of, all that was necessary for action to be taken by a moderator was for some protesting member to have made a personal and incorrect interpretation of the contents of a post. And no explanation thereafter was of any use because, you see, that guy took what he read to mean such and such and so felt aggrieved by it!