HOW I GOT BANNED FROM BITCOINTALK FOR 14 DAYS. BY BOBSURPLUS

[Bobsurplus]

Hey guys, Some of you may have noticed that I have not been around for 14 days or so. This is due to a ban I received from a mod on this site. I want to inform the community of what happened so maybe one less person will have to be banned for a no good reason.

Back on 13/03/2014 I sent out this PM to 10 memebrs on the forum.. Mostly full members all who were chatting with me in one way or another. Here is a copy of what I sent:

"Hope all is well,

I'm part of the dev team on this new coin. You might have noticed. Well, were slowly chugging along and big things are coming. We have a donation of 2k+ happening at the end of the month, diff is still low and we got a great community..

I just wanted to ask if you can stop by the thread from time to time..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494708.new#new

maybe even throw some hashing power its way. I got 10 MH on it since March 1st.

I'm going to send out similar PM's to some of the hero members and some mods, I think now is the time we need eyes on us more then ever.. its some days till we make the donation and we need some new hype to get us through till then.

BTW.. the coin is sick.. 2% of every mined block gets donated to science.. no premine, fair launch and a great community, I know I mentioned that twice. Smiley"


Anyways.. I just want to warn you all out here that the MODS dont care about rules or image. I have been nothing but a productive member of this community since day one and I find it hard to believe the mods allow people to post "find Mark and his family" "fucking nigger ..." ect as posts but ban me for trying to get the word out to people I was already talking with.


So my advice to you all, walk as if you're walking on eggshells in the forum because the mods do what they like, when they like, to whom the like or dont like.

To all the members who responded to my PM, thank you for your reply and please excuse my late reply as I have been banned.

So Sad.

BobSurplus

[hilariousandco]

Anyways.. I just want to warn you all out here that the MODS dont care about rules or image. I have been nothing but a productive member of this community since day one and I find it hard to believe the mods allow people to post "find Mark and his family" "fucking nigger ..." ect as posts but ban me for trying to get the word out to people I was already talking with.


So my advice to you all, walk as if you're walking on eggshells in the forum because the mods do what they like, when they like, to whom the like or dont like.

Those Find Mark and His family / death threat threads aren't allowed and are usually deleted, but the mods just don't really like altcoin spam here and if one person reported your message as such then that's why you were banned.

[Bobsurplus]

Anyways.. I just want to warn you all out here that the MODS dont care about rules or image. I have been nothing but a productive member of this community since day one and I find it hard to believe the mods allow people to post "find Mark and his family" "fucking nigger ..." ect as posts but ban me for trying to get the word out to people I was already talking with.


So my advice to you all, walk as if you're walking on eggshells in the forum because the mods do what they like, when they like, to whom the like or dont like.

Those Find Mark and His family / death threat threads aren't allowed and are usually deleted, but the mods just don't really like altcoin spam here and if one person reported your message as such then that's why you were banned.

Some of those posts were left up for weeks, some individual comments are still up today!

I understand the spam part and altcoin part but I was not spamming. I was just getting in touch with members who were chatting with me on a thread I started. I think its crazy that I got banned but so be it.

Hopefully one person will learn from this, then it would all be worth it.

[hilariousandco]

Anyways.. I just want to warn you all out here that the MODS dont care about rules or image. I have been nothing but a productive member of this community since day one and I find it hard to believe the mods allow people to post "find Mark and his family" "fucking nigger ..." ect as posts but ban me for trying to get the word out to people I was already talking with.


So my advice to you all, walk as if you're walking on eggshells in the forum because the mods do what they like, when they like, to whom the like or dont like.

Those Find Mark and His family / death threat threads aren't allowed and are usually deleted, but the mods just don't really like altcoin spam here and if one person reported your message as such then that's why you were banned.

Some of those posts were left up for weeks, some individual comments are still up today!

I understand the spam part and altcoin part but I was not spamming. I was just getting in touch with members who were chatting with me on a thread I started. I think its crazy that I got banned but so be it.

Hopefully one person will learn from this, then it would all be worth it.

They can only remove them if they're reported. As I said above, it only takes one or two people to mark it as unsolicited and you'll get in trouble. Whilst the ban may or may not be harsh, I'd just make sure you only PM people who are definitely interested in the future.

[Bobsurplus]

Yeah no doubt.. funny thing is, almost everyone I sent the message to replied and were interested in EMC2.

Its just funny/sad at the same time.. Hopefully someone reads this and learns from my mistake.

Thanks for sharing your point of view with us Hilariousandco

[tkbx]

Hey guys, Some of you may have noticed that I have not been around for 14 days or so. This is due to a ban I received from a mod on this site. I want to inform the community of what happened so maybe one less person will have to be banned for a no good reason.

Back on 13/03/2014 I sent out this PM to 10 memebrs on the forum.. Mostly full members all who were chatting with me in one way or another. Here is a copy of what I sent:

"Hope all is well,

I'm part of the dev team on this new coin. You might have noticed. Well, were slowly chugging along and big things are coming. We have a donation of 2k+ happening at the end of the month, diff is still low and we got a great community..

I just wanted to ask if you can stop by the thread from time to time..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494708.new#new

maybe even throw some hashing power its way. I got 10 MH on it since March 1st.

I'm going to send out similar PM's to some of the hero members and some mods, I think now is the time we need eyes on us more then ever.. its some days till we make the donation and we need some new hype to get us through till then.

BTW.. the coin is sick.. 2% of every mined block gets donated to science.. no premine, fair launch and a great community, I know I mentioned that twice. Smiley"


Anyways.. I just want to warn you all out here that the MODS dont care about rules or image. I have been nothing but a productive member of this community since day one and I find it hard to believe the mods allow people to post "find Mark and his family" "fucking nigger ..." ect as posts but ban me for trying to get the word out to people I was already talking with.


So my advice to you all, walk as if you're walking on eggshells in the forum because the mods do what they like, when they like, to whom the like or dont like.

To all the members who responded to my PM, thank you for your reply and please excuse my late reply as I have been banned.

So Sad.

BobSurplus

Mods really seem to hate altcoins. Altcointalk exists for a reason, though, I would go there if I were you.

[xypos]

Yes, you got banned
Should we start crying now?

[Bobsurplus]

Yes, you got banned
Should we start crying now?

yes, please cry me a river. I am so sad.. What oh what will I do?   

[kooke]

There seems to be more people posting about altcoins in the wrong sections lately, so that could be why mods have become increasingly hostile towards them. It's understandable that they're growing sick of it

I do agree with you though that they should do something about the offensive posts on here.

Anyhow, Good to have you back

[Bobsurplus]

Thanks Kooke,

I think its crazy that they banned me but if I broke a rule then I should be punished. I don't really think sending out PM's to people I was already chatting with on a thread of mine was spam but so be it.

It does feel great to be back!

[durrrr]

im glad that your back but you were banned for a reason so its not that bad and bitcoin talk is normally very fair about things in this matter.

[d2dtk]

At least you didn't get a perm-a-ban!

I think I recived that PM too btw

[TheFootMan]

Well, that is spam - and a hiatus from the forums is not a bad thing.

[hilariousandco]

Thanks Kooke,

I think its crazy that they banned me but if I broke a rule then I should be punished.

You sound like a masochist  .

[b!z]

They probably wouldn't have reported your PM if they actually wanted to hear from you.

[Bobsurplus]

They probably wouldn't have reported your PM if they actually wanted to hear from you.

No shit sherlock.. lol. Its ok, whoever ratted me out is still cool in my books and the ones who replied to me are way way cooler.

[grue]

Back on 13/03/2014 I sent out this PM to 10 memebrs on the forum.. Mostly full members all who were chatting with me in one way or another.

something tells me you're stretching the truth on this one.

[Bobsurplus]

Back on 13/03/2014 I sent out this PM to 10 memebrs on the forum.. Mostly full members all who were chatting with me in one way or another.

something tells me you're stretching the truth on this one.

Absolutely not.. You have access to my account being a mod.. Please use due diligence when making a comment like that.

There is no stretch of the truth.

Everyone I PM'd except 3 people who I have already done business with and have posted on my reputation thread were talking with me in the thread I started here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=511208.0

That means 7 emails PM's were sent to people who have not done any official business with me.

All though were chatting with me on that thread.

I have posted the PM verbatim, If you would like to, please go into my account and verify this.

Bob