any thebox staffers arround?

[tespar]

have no ideea,since i pretty much tried all versions of utorrent (under wine),tried the linux version as well,in search of a stable webui

[anon]

it seems that my utorrent (new version) client was sending large amounts of garbage to the tracker

That sounds a bit odd to me - most uTorrent users are running the newer versions, so we should be hearing about many such bans, specially on trackers with good scripts. Although it may have been some sort of isolated incident in combination with something else on the system(s) you ran it on... anyway, it doesn't matter, glad to know you have your account back.

[thegreger]

I'm sorry if I'm hijacking the thread, but I'm having a similar problem. My account has been disabled, and I'm not sure why. The only way to get in touch with staff at thebox without being logged in is through the IRC, and when I try to log onto there is just says "irc.thebox.bz: Closing Link: gamakichi[ircip2.mibbit.com] (User has been permanently banned from TBZchat (no reason))".

I had a really good ratio (3+, with several TB downloaded and shared). It might have been that I've misunderstood the "neutral" rules (I downloaded the F1 qualification, had to go to work, but brought my laptop to watch it. As soon as I got to work, I connected to a public wifi only in order to continue seeding, but then it already said I was banned), but I would really need to get in touch with anyone from the staff!

Edit:
I also just now tried accessing another site, and realized that being on this open wifi might include having a shared IP (I'm not good with networks). Could that be the reason for me being banned? I only logged onto the network so that I could continue seeding, and now I can't even access the site rules to figure out what rule I broke.

[anon]

I'm sorry if I'm hijacking the thread, but I'm having a similar problem. My account has been disabled, and I'm not sure why. The only way to get in touch with staff at thebox without being logged in is through the IRC, and when I try to log onto there is just says "irc.thebox.bz: Closing Link: gamakichi[ircip2.mibbit.com] (User has been permanently banned from TBZchat (no reason))".

You're using Mibbit to join, right? Drop that and use a proper client, such as mIRC.

... I connected to a public wifi only in order to continue seeding, but then it already said I was banned), but I would really need to get in touch with anyone from the staff!

Edit:
I also just now tried accessing another site, and realized that being on this open wifi might include having a shared IP (I'm not good with networks). Could that be the reason for me being banned?

Since you were already banned by the time you tried to log in from that hotspot, I don't think so.

[TONiC]

>>Continue seeding
>>Open Wifi

Keep all your sharing done at home. That's why you pay for your home connection. In turn you won't get banned.

[thegreger]

You're using Mibbit to join, right? Drop that and use a proper client, such as mIRC.

... I connected to a public wifi only in order to continue seeding, but then it already said I was banned), but I would really need to get in touch with anyone from the staff!

Edit:
I also just now tried accessing another site, and realized that being on this open wifi might include having a shared IP (I'm not good with networks). Could that be the reason for me being banned?

Since you were already banned by the time you tried to log in from that hotspot, I don't think so.

Ah, thank you! I'll try the mIRC thingie, and if I'm lucky they'll let me back in. If not then I have myself to blame, I guess, but I didn't do anything wrong on purpose. I'm not quite sure how I'll get by without the box... Might have to start watching Swedish tv. *shrugs*

>>Continue seeding
>>Open Wifi

Keep all your sharing done at home. That's why you pay for your home connection. In turn you won't get banned.

Oh, I absolutely share through my home connection when I can (and I pay for a pretty good connection mainly for that). But this time it was either share from the open network or not at all, and I thought the former alternative would be better. It should also be pointed out that I did it to seed a "neutral" torrent, meaning that I didn't gain any ratio from it.

edit:
Apparently somebody in the staff thought I had been uploading torrents from there onto other sites. That's even more odd. I understand that anyone can break some obscure rule by accident, and find himself banned, but this is one thing I know I haven't done. I'm ashamed to say that the last time I uploaded any torrent anywhere was at least a year ago, and that was one I had ripped myself. Well, thanks for your help everybody!

[anon]

Oh, I absolutely share through my home connection when I can (and I pay for a pretty good connection mainly for that). But this time it was either share from the open network or not at all, and I thought the former alternative would be better.

In these cases, not sharing and waiting until you get home to seed is actually better. Public Wi-Fi means you're not connectable, upload speeds are often slow, and the IP problem mentioned before. Personally, I don't think it's worth the hassle.

edit:
Apparently somebody in the staff thought I had been uploading torrents from there onto other sites. That's even more odd. I understand that anyone can break some obscure rule by accident, and find himself banned, but this is one thing I know I haven't done. I'm ashamed to say that the last time I uploaded any torrent anywhere was at least a year ago, and that was one I had ripped myself.

No happy ending

[thegreger]

No happy ending

Not yet, at least. But the guy (or girl) from the staff that I got to talk to on the IRC told me who had banned me, and told me to come back later and ask for him. I don't know how they check for those things on trackers like thebox, if it's just that someone with the same username as me has uploaded something on another site. But I would really like to know what's going on, and perhaps there's a way for me to prove that I didn't do it.

[mancaleddog]

Well, I have joined the ranks of thebox banned. I tried to find out why, but a "friendly" mod named takamura would only tell me I was cheating, not why or how, and then, when i was not fast enough to type my responses, he did a 3 -2- 1 and kicked me off the channel.

I know that I will nprobably not get back on the board, but i would like to know what i supposedly did. I had a good ration, and was d/l a series. I was being a bit selfish, by no uploading/seeding in a while, but I would not think of that as cheating.

[mjmacky]

Before the first time I read this thread, I had never heard of thebox. Then I made an early judgment based on the antics I heard of its staffers. Now I'm pretty affirmed that most of the staff of this site are indeed retarded little bitches. Maybe the one staffer that had been posting in this thread isn't a tween, or is, but how about making your lives a little more pleasant and find a decent alternative to thebox (rather than trying to get back in).