Milhous' Erroneous Banning

Milhous ^ | September 26, 2006 | Vanity

[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.

[Milhous]

Paraphrasing the Colonel Pogue character in Full Metal Jacket - Thanks for getting me back with the program so I can jump on the team and come on in for the big win against MSM.

[beezdotcom]

I need a premium account - how do you get one?

Premium accounts are only offered to those members who:

1) Offer their software engineering skills for free
2) Write software to expand the existing forum to allow multi-tiered, feature-differentiated user accounts on FR
3) Donate said software to JimRob


Hope that helps...

[Admin Moderator]

You left out the requirement to keep the coffee pot and beer cooler in the mod lounge filled

red

[onyx]

Gotta be cool in nursery school.
Be GOOD.

[Temple Owl]

See what you think of this.

[george76]

LOL.

Very nice.

[Admin Moderator]

Hey Milhous. I'm sorry for banning you so quickly and welcome back. I owed you a mail first.

You've earned this.

Get Out of Jail Free

[Milhous]

Hey Milhous. I'm sorry for banning you so quickly and welcome back. I owed you a mail first.

Thanks. Allow me to apologize for abusing my abuse button so to speak. LOL. I sincerely appreciate all of the endless thankless hard work that you guys do on the other side of the abuse button. My mistake for assuming that FR used software to implement its abuse functionality.

[Milhous]

From the sound of it (have you read the thread?), he was clicking the "Report Abuse" links too often, making too much work for the mod(s).

You got it.

I've never taken the liberty of using the 'abuse button'. The way I look at it,if you can't take the heat, you probably should be on this board.

My time spent in usenet hell with hard core east German communists made me flameproof.

[Milhous]

Whoops. Forgot to mention that I only nuked my own posts.

[wolfcreek]

The mods here are quite fair in my opinion


I agree! They do seem to spot the circle-jerking spin-meisters before they get out of hand.

[newgeezer]

Whoops. Forgot to mention that I only nuked my own posts.

That, too, seemed obvious from reading the thread.