Have you ever been banned UNFAIRLY from a tracker?

I was banned at ptn because once I was traveling to Canada and it was an instant ban due to my ip change. but after I went to their irc and explained that I was visiting there, and will be back on my original ip on x date(I had my laptop with me and was seeding the same torrents as before), the mod was really nice and enabled me. I came back to the original ip and everything is fine since then. Also, I have been disabled due to inactivity on a couple of trackers, I could've saved them but I decided to move along.:cool:
 
This poll doesn't make much sense, to be honest. It's often impossible to say whether a person was banned fairly or unfairly even if you know what happened to that person. Things are often vague.
 
brightsid said:
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OlegL,
First let's start from filesharing
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that image is so nice :lol:
I knew I wasn't practicing piracy all this time! I knew it! :cool:
 
Hang on, P2PDog and Grow4Dough...yeah, I just checked the title of this thread and I was correct. It is not, "Has P2PDog and Grow4Dough ever gotten a hurt butt?". Nope.

The correct title is, "Have you ever been unfairly banned from a tracker?".

Again, we are not looking for individual stories, just community experiences. The individual is not important this time, rather the community. Talk of TrackerX, or Y, is unimportant.

There are plenty of other places to complain about hurt butts and abuses of power. Heck, start your own thread...
 
Mega,
I think u have a good concept but I don't think most trackers admin would let the final decision out of there hands. Maybe if the person has been an active member ( at least 50 posts) of this site in a positive manner then if they get banned for what they feel is unfair reasons they could forward there issue to a sticky thread in the general bittorent section titled

"Banned for unknown reason"

I don;t know how many people here who somewhat regularily post are banned. I have no idea if it would be one post a day or more ? less? . If it was a manageable amount (not 5 a day) then maybe an admin here if they felt that the person posting had a case could talk on there behalf to the admin at the site they were banned from.

At least with this the person would be judged on there behaviour over months at a time with numerous posts. Maybe this is a ton of work for admin who are volunteers and wouldn't want to be bothered. I don't know.
 
OlegL said:
This poll doesn't make much sense, to be honest. It's often impossible to say whether a person was banned fairly or unfairly even if you know what happened to that person. Things are often vague.
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Life isn't always black and white, OlegL. If it were, then no one would ever have reason for dispute (outside of hurt pride). People do see things differently and life is vague. Look at some of the World issues- Do we have "Global Warming" or "Climate Change"? Has the US been pursuing a "War on Drugs" or a "War on the Casual User"? H1N1 (swine flu), should we get vaccinated, or not?

We may not have an infallible answer, but we do have feelings, leanings, biases, and even "best guesses". Sometimes, we even get it right. Going into conflicts considering the possibility that you may have been wrong will often make things MUCH easier to work out with another party. However, don't let people take advantage of that flexibility and circumspection. If you cave-in and then regret it, you will feel more resentment than you would have had later.

You also make a case why we don't need to give personal accounts of the incidents here. You can feel like you were mistreated without having to defend against/attack the other party. It is only your perception we are after this time.:)
 
FWIW, I wasn't butthurt over either account. I was simply giving explanations along with my vote. It's your poll, if you don't want discussion, that's fine with me.
 
We have seen A LOT of threads created for purposes of bitching about individual sites/staff- this is not one of those.

Let's take this opportunity to look at the data coming in. So far, it seems that more people have, at one time, felt that they were banned unfairly.

Questions:

What system(s) can be put in place so that this happens less?

Supposedly, the US Justice System is designed so that "100 guilty men will be set free instead of one innocent man being found guilty". Does this idea apply to BT, why or why not?

Should there be some form of appeal forum available (not the open "poor me" style we have seen here)? How would/could this be implemented?


I would like to bring these ideas to the table as an example of what can be discussed once we start looking outside of the "I was..." perspective. Let's look at the BIG picture here. Let's think macro-...

I would also like to thank the BT staff who generously donate their time to make this community possible. You face a lot of "yes or no" decisions and have a fantastic rate of being correct! Far too often that is missed when things are seen on a micro- level as well.
 
Nope, never so much as had a warning on any site in 4+ years.

Had a few randomly signed up for accounts disabled for inactivity, and seen a fair number of sites i used to use shut down, but never even come close to being banned anywhere, fairly or not. I guess with all these rampaging egotistical staff members out there I keep hearing about, who are just itching to ban people for no good reason, I must have been extraordinarily lucky.....

...... or maybe I just don't routinely break site rules?
 
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