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Milhous' Erroneous Banning
Milhous ^ | September 26, 2006 | Vanity

Posted on 09/26/2006 1:00:10 PM PDT by abb

I just recived this via freepmail. Evidently the webmaster's made a mistake and needs to correct this.

Milhous Opus / R.I.P. From Milhous2 | 09/26/2006 2:46:53 PM CDT new

Greetings FRiends. Milhous here under a different name.

Allow me to begin my opus by thanking everybody for the things you taught me about critical thinking, politics, and human nature during the past couple of years.

Last Sunday without warning FR abruptly banned me with "reason: troll". A ban possibly caused by my deletion of a few of my older posts in an attempt to improve my own Signal-to-Noise Ratio on self searches after a failure to find a previous post frustrated me.

Perhaps my deletion of a years old post that originally offended another FReeper got flagged at the time then triggered an automatic ban.

On Monday I emailed an appeal to webmaster@freerepublic.com, but it remains unanswered. First thing Tuesday morning I emailed another appeal to jimrob@psnw.com but it too remains unanswered.

At this point my posting ban looks permanent. Although it's impossible for me to post I will still lurk to watch MSM's inevitable fade into oblivion. :)

May my own experience help you avoid a potential pitfall. Thanks again. Good luck.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Reference
KEYWORDS: ban; milhous; opusbyproxy; troll
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1 posted on 09/26/2006 1:00:11 PM PDT by abb
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To: Admin Moderator

Can you guys look into this and see if you can fix it?


2 posted on 09/26/2006 1:00:41 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

well you're posting now!


3 posted on 09/26/2006 1:01:48 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: PajamaTruthMafia; knews_hound; Grampa Dave; martin_fierro; Liz; norwaypinesavage; Mo1; onyx; ...

Give the admin's cage a rattle and see if they can fix this.

thx,
abb


4 posted on 09/26/2006 1:02:15 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Republicus2001

It was Milhous that got banned, not me.


5 posted on 09/26/2006 1:02:56 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

You can delete your old posts????


6 posted on 09/26/2006 1:04:30 PM PDT by MattinNJ (The West has been fighting the war on terror for 1300 years.)
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To: abb
A ban possibly caused by my deletion of a few of my older posts in an attempt to improve my own Signal-to-Noise Ratio on self searches after a failure to find a previous post frustrated me.

Wow, that's impressive. How exactly did you delete these posts?

7 posted on 09/26/2006 1:08:11 PM PDT by Sloth ('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
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To: Sloth

T'wasn't me. It was Milhous. He freepmailed me using another name...


8 posted on 09/26/2006 1:09:19 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Sloth
"Wow, that's impressive. How exactly did you delete these posts?"

Only Way I can think of is to hit the abuse button and ask the Admin to delete them.

9 posted on 09/26/2006 1:10:21 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: abb

Yes, but you posted this thread. Replies are going to have your name on them by default. Milhous should be reading this thread, right?


10 posted on 09/26/2006 1:10:32 PM PDT by Sloth ('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
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To: MattinNJ

I'd be happy if I could correct spelling and grammatical errors.


11 posted on 09/26/2006 1:11:08 PM PDT by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: MattinNJ
You can delete your old posts????

Only with a premium account.

12 posted on 09/26/2006 1:11:43 PM PDT by jdm (I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
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To: abb


I received the very same FR mail.
I am perplexed about the deleting of old posts.


13 posted on 09/26/2006 1:12:58 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: SmithL
I'd be happy if I could correct spelling and grammatical errors.

How great would that be? I can't tell you how many times I've made a dumb gramatical error, or left out a key word, in a post that I otherwise really thought was good.

14 posted on 09/26/2006 1:13:03 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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To: Sloth
Milhous should be reading this thread, right?

He's lurking under his new user name. The admins are who I want to read this and then fix it. He ain't no troll. He's been here for years...

15 posted on 09/26/2006 1:17:13 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: abb

Looks like he's been reinstated.


16 posted on 09/26/2006 1:19:16 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: abb

He's amongst the logged on again.


17 posted on 09/26/2006 1:25:31 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (1 year guarantee against congenital defects.)
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To: abb
Milhous has been restored, Milhous2 has been banned.

We do not remove old comments for posters solely for the purpose of "to improve my own Signal-to-Noise Ratio". He was banned because he was spamming the abuse button.

Thanks.

18 posted on 09/26/2006 1:27:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Tijeras_Slim

YAY!


19 posted on 09/26/2006 1:27:14 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: Admin Moderator

I'm sure he won't make that mistake again...


20 posted on 09/26/2006 1:27:55 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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