Have you ever been banned UNFAIRLY from a tracker?

[megabyteme]

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 .

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.

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.

[lol87]

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.

[Hombre]

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.

[TrollinThunder]

I have been banned from several trackers for being an idiot. I was reinstated at one and joined others with new invites.

[OlegL]

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.

[megabyteme]

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?

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.

[grow4dough]

Hang on, P2PDog and Grow4Dough...yeah, I just checked the title of this thread and I was correct. It is not, "Has P2PDog and Grow4Dough ever gotten a hurt butt?". Nope.

The correct title is, "Have you ever been unfairly banned from a tracker?".

Again, we are not looking for individual stories, just community experiences. The individual is not important this time, rather the community. Talk of TrackerX, or Y, is unimportant.

There are plenty of other places to complain about hurt butts and abuses of power. Heck, start your own thread...

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.

[megabyteme]

Hang on, P2PDog and Grow4Dough...yeah, I just checked the title of this thread and I was correct. It is not, "Has P2PDog and Grow4Dough ever gotten a hurt butt?". Nope.

The correct title is, "Have you ever been unfairly banned from a tracker?".

Again, we are not looking for individual stories, just community experiences. The individual is not important this time, rather the community. Talk of TrackerX, or Y, is unimportant.

There are plenty of other places to complain about hurt butts and abuses of power. Heck, start your own thread...

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.

I started an "Original Bitch" thread in the Lounge: https://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-lou...-thread-385139

Perhaps that will be more to your liking...

[xa1ups]

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.

[lol87]

@Homble, you give me an epilepsy attack with all of your flashing gif animations.