Have you ever been banned UNFAIRLY from a tracker?

With the all-too-frequent complaints from individuals who "never did anything wrong, BUT found themselves banned" threads popping up, I got the idea for this poll.

Have you been banned UNFAIRLY from a tracker?

And let's stipulate the difference between BANNED and INACTIVE. This is about being falsely accused, or not.

PLEASE do not use this as a thread to badmouth any trackers or staff, this poll is simply a survey to indicate what percentage of the BT community believes to have been wronged at any time.

Please feel free to discuss the poll, but consider discussion of individual trackers and their staff as OFF TOPIC. I will ask that all flaming of trackers and staff be deleted from this thread.

Thanks!

Votes are confidential on this one. Feel free to be completely honest. :)
 
I got disabled at some site with the acromyn RTS when I was a noob. It wasnt runningthescene it was some other site although I cant even recall the name. If I remember correctly the site started you with a negative buffer (2 gigs down, 0 up i think). I downloaded something, then a week or two later I went back and was ip banned :lol:. Didnt bother me at all to be honest.

Other than that, I guess I have been "lucky" enough to stay clear of being banned. It really isnt that difficult. Just dont break the rules or act like a fool. If you cant refrain from acting up, just keep to yourself and download/seed.

Im sure a few ppl have been disabled unjustly. But not nearly as many that claim to be victims here.
 
yes, I got booted twice (over my 3 year BT life)but I am not good at IRC chatting (hate the format) and I never asked for my account back or to explain the situation.

I had an account at awesomehd and they had a forum to give away invites to other trackers. I gave away an invite to one site and the dude asked me if I needed an invite to a site (he listed 4-5 sites) One of the sites was one I wanted so I said sure send me one. He sent me the invite and then reported me to admin. Yes I broke there rules and I got my ip banned.

As I have previously stated in a long post I don't think there is anything wrong with trading invites for the purpose of both people getting into a site they want to use. I am against collecting sites and selling invites/accounts. I like to trade books, clothes, jokes, wives (only with my one friend who has a pornstar looking wife.... yeah it is in my dreams)

THere is nothing wrong with disagreeing over a site's rules. You can choose to break some of there rules but if u get caught.... take your medicine and move on.

When the cop waits at the bottom of a steep hill in the middle of nowhere to catch u speeding u get nabbed ( at least I have a couple of times). I disagreed with the officer about the validity of the ticket but I didn't yell or swear and i paid the ticket.

What i would like to see is people more accountable for there mistakes. Don't try to cheat,dupe, lie your way back into a tracker. Yes u may be able to do it but its slimy.

I imagine being an admin at one of these sites is tough. Must be kind of like being an insurance adjuster. You have so many people lying to u all the time that u lump the good ones in with the bad.
 
kurdt said:
the poll options are not clear. If someone was only ever banned for cause, they would qualify for option 2) No i have not (been UNFAIRLY banned) and option 3) banned for my own fault. Further, option 4 doesn't specify whether it refers to reinstatement after a fair or an unfair banning.
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I thought it would be clear, but this is only my second poll.

Here is how I break the options down:

Yes, I have been banned unfairly.

No, I have never been banned unfairly.

I have been banned, but I was at fault. I moved on.

I was banned, but was able to work things out with staff and get reinstated. No admission of guilt necessary (either way), IMO. If you still harbor resentment after being reinstated, then they probably should not have been so generous.

Hope this clears things up (as to my perceptions of the poll) a bit.

And, just like those fill-in the dot multiple choice tests at school, pick the one that BEST fits your situation.
 
Banned from ScT too, for uploading a rom pack to another tracker, months after I had downloaded it from ScT. No big deal, but I was offered 3 invites from different friends to get back into ScT.
 
megabyteme said:
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...
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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 .
 
sez said:
lol are you being serious olegl?you are beginning to sound like some fish character from finding nemo.
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:lol: I'm replacing my previous sez quote with this one. Made me laugh because I get different character voices in my head for all of the regular posters (or maybe it's just my meds talking) and I could not figure out where I got the voice for Oleg- nailed it, sez. It's emo err.. Nemo.
 
Yeah, from cossanostra by theDevil as far as I remember, or some other cunt. Reason: someother cunt from fst who accused me in public. But I got over it.

Merry Christhmas
 
well, I never had any kind of problems with staff from the trackers I'm member of if that's what you're "also" asking... I've never being banned but disabled for inactivity since I tend to just leave accounts do be disabled when I won't use it anymore...

I don't know if this is the best "approach" though... maybe I should ask the staff to disable it? =/
 
IdolEyes787 said:
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 .
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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.
 
I've been banned twice, once was unfair, another time I invited like 3 cheaters and they disabled me, eventually got my account reinstated after apologizing. Only invited IRL friends after that point.
 
I was banned from the third private tracker that I had ever joined. The first torrent that I downloaded from there was a ~20GB pack of Godzilla movies, figuring that it wouldn't matter if my ratio plummeted as long as I was still committed to seeding it. I hadn't understood the concept of buffering then. I learned how to use IRC, joined their channel, and staff there were kind enough to re-enable my account and give me a little bit of upload.
 
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