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How many times have you been banned on any forum?

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No bans, I believe I've gotten three vacations from here. They were for insulting other members, though two were just jokes, I was only serious about one. Oops.

EDIT: Nope, I think it was four times. For two I was being serious.
 
Once recently for slamming a guy. He's still a douche though.
I did get banned from Rage3d by promoting AT there.
 
a few vacations here, not sure on exact count, though some were completely unwarranted.

never been banned on another forum as far as i can remember. of course, i don't post on any other forums near as mcuh as i do here.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: Nitemare
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1 threat (once again, the same mod threatening to give me a 1 week vacation for doing nothing wrong)
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We call those warnings.

* The above post fits some kind of rules. Somewhere.
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Unwritten rules perhaps? I remember those. 😛

I've been banned zero times from anywhere that I know of.
 
No bans, no vacations. I think I may have been given a warning but it seemed more tongue in cheek than threatening.
 
I got warned at some "warez forum." People were like OMGZ HOW DO I OPEN A .zip file. I signed up and wrote a nasty post detailing how retarded you can be if you can't open a zip file what makes you think you can download Windows Vista Beta and successfully install it. I got a warning despite the negativity of the post which also included tons of insults to people who were posting about "Can I run this on 256mb ram?" It was funny but a lot of times those forums are filled with too many noobs. Just go check out any torrent site. Those comments make you want to cry because it's just completely filled with technical illiteracy.
 
Originally posted by: Kyteland
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: Nitemare
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1 threat (once again, the same mod threatening to give me a 1 week vacation for doing nothing wrong)
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We call those warnings.

* The above post fits some kind of rules. Somewhere.
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Unwritten rules perhaps? I remember those. 😛

I've been banned zero times from anywhere that I know of.
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calling out a troll and making fun of someone making fun of someone...
 
Banned from 1 Christian Discussion Forum during their "Great Atheist Purge" of 2005 -- some 15 to 20 atheists were banned temporarily.
Banned from 1 Counter-Strike Source server/community forum -- they thought I used hacks on the server.
Never banned from ATOT, but I've been warned for a few things that I was simply ignorant about with regard to guidelines.

For as much of a forum rat as I have been, I'd say I'm a pretty upstanding netizen. 😛
 
The only blemish on my record is that, in June 2007, I was given a 1 week vacation that turned into 10 days because someone forgot to unban me.

I sent a couple e-mails to moderator@anandtech.com with no responses. I ended up having to create a second account (now banned) and posting in 'Personal Forum Issues' to get unbanned.

Apparently, the notation on my account did not explain why I was banned. To this day, I know the thread I was banned for, which was related to another thread, but have no idea why it was banable.

MotionMan
 
Not banned but vacationed here. 3 times I think? Most recent was posting a coupon code using bold letters.
 
I got banned via script once. I hit the submit button, and my internet froze. I started hitting random keys trying to get the computer to respond and hit space bar about 20 times in a row. Turns out, the computer was struggling with some background task, but once that finished, all those clicks registered, which resulted in me posting my reply 20 times simultaneously. The site had a script to combat spam, and I got caught by it.

Took about 3 days to actually track a mod down who could unban me. What a pain in the ass.
 
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