60 Days Ban Appeal

[Stalker22]

What's wrong with promoting your own business? People do that all the time...

But rules are rules... So... 60 days of ban is nothing don't be sad.

Others may argue, what's wrong with scamming other people? People do that all the time ...
But, sadly, as you said, rules are rules, and this is the forum we currently have, so we have no choice but to accept that if we want to be a part of it.

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[Cryptojurnalist]

This is efialtis,

I just received an email about a post of mine having been deleted - after logging in, I see that I have received a 60 days ban for posting an exclusive offer in my very own BTCGOSU thread.

I have/had no idea that something like I posted was against the rules, even less so in my own thread (I didn`t post it in giveaways section for that very reason, being USDT and no Bitcoin) - so what should have been done?!

Now tell me, how does this deserve a 60 days ban? 60 days??? When this place (the forum) is full of shitposters, everywhere? This is unreal... unbelievable actually how honest members of this forum are f***** - congrats mods! Medal deserved!

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Profile link efialtis: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2597426

Dude I think you should be grateful it's not a permanent ban and you still have hope of getting your account back after two month and what ever that lead to it must have been lesson for you.

[ChuckBuck]

I couldn't believe this would happen to someone as prestigious and experienced as efialtis. It seems this case will not be approved and this appeal will not be valid? 60 days is a long time for someone who regularly works and is active on this forum. It must have caused a lot of problems at work, it's a pity that this happened.

I don't think efialtis was aware that he would receive this ban for making his post 

[sheenshane]

I couldn't believe this would happen to someone as prestigious and experienced as efialtis. It seems this case will not be approved and this appeal will not be valid? 60 days is a long time for someone who regularly works and is active on this forum. It must have caused a lot of problems at work, it's a pity that this happened.

It so sad to know about efialtis that was banned and I thought OP was aware of that rule of this forum since efialtis was also an experienced member here for how many years.  As I remember correctly, OP got 60 days ban for this offense, and the participants also got 30 days ban if there is.

This was the same case when I was joining webstrick's thread giveaway using altcoin(without knowing me it was a bannable offense), I got 30 days banned and OP was received 60 days banned.  After that, I promised myself I will never join the altcoin giveaway or avoid participating in any giveaways in the Games and Round section, unless if that is offer Bitcoin giveaway.

Sad to say but mods mprep was right and I think efialtis must move on and this just a lesson to learn.

[PrimeNumber7]

I issued the ban.

We need a forum moderator, not a lawyer. Lawyers are good at winning arguments. For the god sake, this is a forum, and we are dumb people (/sarcasm) hanging around. Our sin is that we love this space. When we make a post, we just post it. Only keep the commons in mind that we are not spamming and not harming others.

But this place turns out to be a law enforcement agency where someone makes a small mistake (without being aware*) and they get kicked out very easily. All the blood and sweat means nothing at all at the end.

I don't understand why other mods do not notice such things and keep banning users. It's always you who bring yourself to the spotlight for similar cases.

mprep is the moderator of the altcoin section, and as such, he is most likely to issue these kinds of bans. Unless he is going to be away for several days, I would be willing to bet that most other moderators will differ to him when issuing a ban that breaks this particular rule.

mprep made a compelling case as to why he believes it is fair to assume the OP was aware of the rule in question before he posted the giveaway. Assuming the OP still disagrees with the ban and its duration, he can make additional arguments as to why he believes the ban is unjustified. If the OP is unable to change mprep's mind, he can escalate to theymos to see if he is willing to override mprep.

While I do like to support fellow forum members, assuming what mprep has posted is true, I do not see an error on his part. My advice to the OP is to wait out the duration of his ban, learn his lesson and move on.

[Pmalek]

Technically that's ban evasion. Ban appeal thread is the only thing a banned user is allowed to do.

Technically it is, but I also understand that some people can't just disappear and be unavailable for 60 days. Especially those who run signature campaigns like Hhampuz who got temp banned. Imagine the drama if signature participants stopped getting paid for 30 or 60 days. You might say, he could still pay the participants even if he is banned and he doesn't need his forum account for that. But technically that could also be ban evasion because he keeps conducting the business he normally runs on the forum.

I understand what you are saying. However, if you and I made a deal where am I expecting a payment from you on Monday and you got temp banned today, I would still expect you to find a way around that and tell me how we should proceed. I would certainly do it if it was the other way around because my personal predicament can't be an excuse for breaking an agreement we had.

Dude I think you should be grateful it's not a permanent ban and you still have hope of getting your account back after two month and what ever that lead to it must have been lesson for you.

Oh you do, do you? How cute. And what do your other alter egos think? Will we hear from them as well?

[efialtis_banned]

All of this is a complete joke and I have just sent theymos a PM on the matter.

It is so ridiculous that I am not even going to comment on single responses.

Instead, I will say just this: Banning someone (60 days), who is actually doing good to the forum (unlike 95% of the users who just spam and shitpost), protecting users, being opiniated even when the mainstream does not like it... this is a big farce - especially when being banned because of  so called "incentivizing posting" when this whole forum is basically based on incentivized posting (signature campaigns, bounties etc.). Let`s not forget that not a single post resulted out of my incentive...

The moderator has proven that he does a bad job when it comes to actual moderation - a new hobby might be advisable.

Edit: Truth is that I see various threads these days about businesses (supposedly) acting shady/unethically with lots of bullshit commenting and instead of me jumping in and helping, I am just not allowed to. Yeah, that`s a win for this forum and its users, I guess?