I honestly can't say if I was banned fairly or unfairly. I just don't know.
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I honestly can't say if I was banned fairly or unfairly. I just don't know.
Correct me if I'm wrong but since you adhere to the " their site, their rules "philosophy( as opposed to my "always try to do the right thing" ) is it even technically ( taking your credo at face value) possible to be unfairly banned?I mean under those conditions "they" are always right aren't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
"Well it's the 2nd Tuesday of the month and Ralph said the word pickle, guess I'll ban him"
Sorry if I'm being overly simplistic but that's more or less me - overly simple .
I was banned from the third private tracker that I had ever joined. The first torrent that I downloaded from there was a ~20GB pack of Godzilla movies, figuring that it wouldn't matter if my ratio plummeted as long as I was still committed to seeding it. I hadn't understood the concept of buffering then. I learned how to use IRC, joined their channel, and staff there were kind enough to re-enable my account and give me a little bit of upload.
no , ever never. coz i'm active in all my trackers. And i have few trackers,so i can seed them well.
Welll Nearly 2 months ago a Ban Wave strike me and was Banned at GFT , Bitme , BitmeTv and PTN.
Reason : Well I was a trader/scammer when i started torrenting 1.5 years ago( for reason i could not see any other way of getting into tracker then). but left it after 1 months as i got into 2-3 good trackers den.
So 2 months before all of 4 tracker accused me of trading. I tried 2 make den realize dat trading was my bad past. Got GFT and PTN back but as every one can guess bitme/tv staff are little ...........
I was banned fairly on all my trackers .
^^ :D
I know for a fact yu are not banned everywhere mate
Typo mistake i don't mean all trackers i refer only to those i got banned.
That makes more sense. Craciun Fericit!
Lots of bans, most temporary but one was annoying.
-Banned on Waffles for 'hammering the tracker'. Turns out that max_half.open to 100 when downloading 32 torrents at a time is a bad idea. Quick chat and was re-enabled.
-Banned on BCG as was in tree of trader (grandfather?). IRC convo, was told to find better inviter.
-Banned on HDBits when seedboxes were newish for 'stats cheating'. Convo and proof of seedbox, re-enabled.
-Banned on TheBox. Worst reason ever: using a shared seedbox. I had also asked on the forum if using a shared seedbox was ok and was told yes. Not re-enabled but I was annoyed as I had uploaded a few TB's on the shared seedbox before they banned me. I felt this was unfair.
That is a good point, Idol. It is also one of the reasons I created this thread. The fact is, I have never been banned. I have been disabled for inactivity, but that is something entirely different.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787Correct me if I'm wrong but since you adhere to the " their site, their rules "philosophy( as opposed to my "always try to do the right thing" ) is it even technically ( taking your credo at face value) possible to be unfairly banned?I mean under those conditions "they" are always right aren't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
"Well it's the 2nd Tuesday of the month and Ralph said the word pickle, guess I'll ban him"
Sorry if I'm being overly simplistic but that's more or less me - overly simple .
When I see one of the "I got banned without doing anything wrong..." threads, I roll my eyes. Then I wait for the spam to begin. After a while, it turns out they DID do something.
I have become a bit jaded on the individual stories. However, I do realize that no system is perfect. We have lots of people and LOTS of interactions. Mistakes do happen.
If there is a real problem in the community, then this sort of macro- view should shed some light on it. I am not saying I know how to solve "the problem", if it exists, but I do find it interesting that ~40% of the voters feel that they have, at least once, been banned unfairly.
I have been banned at TBy, reason: In their forum "need to seed section", I requested someone to seed since I downloaded a pack with a speed of 1-2 kb/s. Writing the download speed was the reason for them to ban me. I think it's a little over the top, maybe they could give me a warning instead of banning me. First I thought that they banned me for over-seeding ( ratio = ~3 ), later I realized it was for writing the speed.
x264 banned me, since they thought that I offer my account for trading.
The thing is that I wrote a list of trackers that I have ( for ratio proof ) written in my native language ( not English ) in a foreign filesharing forum. I wrote it clearly that I had an account for ratio proof not for trading. Since those lazy people from x264 didn't bother to use google translator, they justified all this by banning me.
PS: I never traded my account before. However, I have been disabled from some various torrent sites fairly since I didn't use my account.
I was never baned from any tracker, bcuz I only DL and say nothing. most trackers forums are shit and only kids there (irc is even worst), so I steal my files and GTFO. i lost accs bcuz I was uninterested in the tracker. Only good exception from sites I have are TBy and revTT. Them forums are quite good.
I have been banned from several trackers for being an idiot. I was reinstated at one and joined others with new invites.
This poll doesn't make much sense, to be honest. It's often impossible to say whether a person was banned fairly or unfairly even if you know what happened to that person. Things are often vague.
Life isn't always black and white, OlegL. If it were, then no one would ever have reason for dispute (outside of hurt pride). People do see things differently and life is vague. Look at some of the World issues- Do we have "Global Warming" or "Climate Change"? Has the US been pursuing a "War on Drugs" or a "War on the Casual User"? H1N1 (swine flu), should we get vaccinated, or not?Quote:
Originally Posted by OlegL
We may not have an infallible answer, but we do have feelings, leanings, biases, and even "best guesses". Sometimes, we even get it right. Going into conflicts considering the possibility that you may have been wrong will often make things MUCH easier to work out with another party. However, don't let people take advantage of that flexibility and circumspection. If you cave-in and then regret it, you will feel more resentment than you would have had later.
You also make a case why we don't need to give personal accounts of the incidents here. You can feel like you were mistreated without having to defend against/attack the other party. It is only your perception we are after this time.:)
the community is made up of individuals each with their own story that will paint a clearer overall picture. im sorry if common sense has eluded you and you do not understand that. also, i dont give a fuck what you want in this thread, i saw other people post their stories so i posted mine. have a great day, and please give me your opinion more, i care deeply about what you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
I started an "Original Bitch" thread in the Lounge: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-lou...-thread-385139Quote:
Originally Posted by grow4doughthe community is made up of individuals each with their own story that will paint a clearer overall picture. im sorry if common sense has eluded you and you do not understand that. also, i dont give a fuck what you want in this thread, i saw other people post their stories so i posted mine. have a great day, and please give me your opinion more, i care deeply about what you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by megabyteme
Perhaps that will be more to your liking...:console:
Banned never, only disabled for inactivity after a long period without dsl. I don't understand how can someone get banned "unfairly" from a tracker? It has to be because he broke some kind of rule.
@Homble, you give me an epilepsy attack with all of your flashing gif animations.
well, I never had any kind of problems with staff from the trackers I'm member of if that's what you're "also" asking... I've never being banned but disabled for inactivity since I tend to just leave accounts do be disabled when I won't use it anymore...
I don't know if this is the best "approach" though... maybe I should ask the staff to disable it? =/
Once for a shared network IP conflict,threatened them got re-enabled <---jk :P but it ended well.
no i dont get banned i get disabled for inactivity on terrible trackers
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ewwwyourface
I got banned from vipmusic once for inviting a previously banned user(didnt know he was). I thought that was a little harsh as they could've just taken away my invites/disabled invite privileges but a straight ban? Cmon!
I got banned on bitme.org but got my account as the staff believed in what i said. My friend was shocked when he heard that bitme staff enabled my account again. :)
I was banned at ptn because once I was traveling to Canada and it was an instant ban due to my ip change. but after I went to their irc and explained that I was visiting there, and will be back on my original ip on x date(I had my laptop with me and was seeding the same torrents as before), the mod was really nice and enabled me. I came back to the original ip and everything is fine since then. Also, I have been disabled due to inactivity on a couple of trackers, I could've saved them but I decided to move along.:cool:
they're nice :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Glitterstep
Never been banned on any tracker im a good boy :P
This poll doesn't make much sense because there isn't any difference between a person who was banned from a tracker and a person who wasn't banned from a tracker.
lol are you being serious olegl?you are beginning to sound like some fish character from finding nemo.
:lol: I'm replacing my previous sez quote with this one. Made me laugh because I get different character voices in my head for all of the regular posters (or maybe it's just my meds talking) and I could not figure out where I got the voice for Oleg- nailed it, sez. It'sQuote:
Originally Posted by sez
emoerr.. Nemo.
How can we really answer the question asked in this poll if we don't even know why bittorrent trackers exist, what their purpose is, and what anyone of us is doing on bittorrent trackers?
Why do I get the feeling you have been reading stuff like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
However, you seem to be taking the long way around... simply pick one of the four that best fits with your current state of consciousness and being. :D
http://i46.tinypic.com/285jkh.jpg
OlegL,
First let's start from filesharing
You mean i have been wearing this ridiculous outfit every time I download something....and I didn't NEED to?!!!! :pinch: At least now I can stop building the ship in my back yard.
Nothing's wrong with home improvement MBM :P
that image is so nice :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by brightsid
I knew I wasn't practicing piracy all this time! I knew it! :cool:
yeah but i ended up somewhere entirely better and haven't looked back
TL, RevTT and HDByte.
I had a decent ratio on all trackers, suddenly my accounts were removed. To be fair I did cross seed :P
No. I've been banned justly a couple of times and then got it sorted. Most of the topics here are just people bitching because they cheated or broke rules and got banned then acted like dicks instead of apologising and asking for another chance.