Have you ever been banned UNFAIRLY from a tracker?

[OlegL]

I honestly can't say if I was banned fairly or unfairly. I just don't know.

[IdolEyes787]

My thanks to the last 3 posters. I appreciate you looking at this as a community issue.

I am certainly not advocating that sites and their staff should give up any of their rights. I am simply pondering whether or not there is something that can/should be done in the community.

There are a lot of people who use BT. Some of them chose to break rules. However, there are those (few) who do fall through the cracks. Some of these people take every opportunity (even if is expressly stated as unwelcome) to spew venom at that site. Injustice stings. A lot. I can tell you details of every traffic citation I have ever received that I feel was bogus. I won't do that though.

When we look at the individual cases, there really is not a whole lot of sympathy we can muster. However, something like this poll can shed some light on the possibility of errors in the system.

Take it for what it's worth, but I see some potential here. Or, people can just bitch, ineffectively...

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?
"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 .

[respawn40]

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.

[mengaish]

no , ever never. coz i'm active in all my trackers. And i have few trackers,so i can seed them well.

[Cut-Copy-Paste]

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 ...........

[Swift]

I was banned fairly on all my trackers .

[ovisan]

^^

I know for a fact yu are not banned everywhere mate

[Swift]

Typo mistake i don't mean all trackers i refer only to those i got banned.

[ovisan]

That makes more sense. Craciun Fericit!

[smcewa11]

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.