banned from section, mod is an idiot ???

Package

i was just banned from the music section and im pretty pissed off about it let me tell you.

i posted a thread asking if anyone knew about a certain gig that i heard may or may not happen at any point in the future. i checked for updates a few minutes later and couldnt find the thread. thinking that maybe the thread didnt catch cause of a server problem or something, i posted again.

when i checked again i found i was banned, also got a message from the mod saying i was banned for double posting about an certain promotion company's gig.

how the hell did i know it was an one of their gigs when i knew nothing about it. and posted again because of nil comunication?

whats your view on the subject???

power hungry mod twats

Must be some twat.I reckon you should send him an abusive text message!;)

Kiith

I'm guessing it was about a certain organistaion that we arent allowed to talk about for legal reasons. I wont say if i agree or disagree with a ban, but assuming it is who i think it is, then its a sticky on top of pretty much every forum.

KTRIC

If anyone's looking for me I'll be standing behind that flame proof shield over there :rolleyes:

Sherifu

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=82

my work here is done...

/initiate feline search

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i think you'll be no great loss.

Ruu_Old

Kiith wrote: »

I'm guessing it was about a certain organistaion that we arent allowed to talk about for legal reasons. I wont say if i agree or disagree with a ban, but assuming it is who i think it is, then its a sticky on top of pretty much every forum.

Correct, the sticky has been there for over a year now. One in gigs and events. User needs glasses. I would have sitebanned you had I caught it, no excuses.

dublad23

HaHa

That is ridiculous... The Mod should have just PM'd you saying it was a MCD gig or whatever - I wouldn't know if a gig was them either.

Idiot! A banning is Stupid!!

kaimera

in before lock

Jim

Read charters.
Post on relevent forums with complaints.
Don't call people idiots when you can't do these basic things.

Package

thanks clommy, i can live without your music section for a week. also. if i dont know its from a certain organisation, then how was i to know i couldnt mention it. its called an uninformed mistake. shouldnt be banned for it.

this is what should have happened.

thread deleted.. and i get a quick message

had to delete you thread, it mentioned the joey bloggs company...

easy solution, save the hassle. what else are you doing with your busy hectic lifestyle that you cant take 30 seconds to write a courtesy pm ???


ps,, why should this thread be locked when it raises a relavent point and is obviosly cause for debate and interest/

justsomebloke

Package wrote: »

power hungry mod twats

or n00b without a clue?

well I go for option B more for the fact that you posted this thread in AH of all places. seriously why don't you take it to feedback.

Anyway there is a sticky on each Forum in relation to the thing that shall not be named, cause of this did you not think it would be a smart move to check you the promoter of said artist you were posting about was?

Ruu_Old

Less than 30 seconds to read the charter and notice. The mods aren't here to hold your hand.

You should start a feedback thread.

Dudess

Package wrote: »

i was just banned from the music section and im pretty pissed off about it let me tell you.

And you're starting a thread about it in After Hours because...?

i posted a thread asking if anyone knew about a certain gig that i heard may or may not happen at any point in the future. i checked for updates a few minutes later and couldnt find the thread. thinking that maybe the thread didnt catch cause of a server problem or something, i posted again.

Standard procedure. You haven't been singled out.

when i checked again i found i was banned, also got a message from the mod saying i was banned for double posting about an certain promotion company's gig.

how the hell did i know it was an one of their gigs when i knew nothing about it.

There are only stickies all over the place (and have been for a good 18 months at this stage) advising you that discussion of any of that company's gigs is forbidden. I presume the mod took it in good faith that you'd surely be aware of this by now, and therefore you'd have checked out the promotions company before posting about the gig in question. It can't be too hard to find out.

power hungry mod twats

Yup, that's us all right. To Feedback you go for much ridicule and cat imagery...

Package

more people in ah , more opinions, better convo...


but ok

ill take it to the feedback.

Sherifu

Package wrote: »

whats your view on the subject???

power hungry mod twats

kaimera

why should this thread be locked when it raises a relavent point and is obviosly cause for debate and interest/

Cos it was in the wrong forum. Forgot about moving the thread by teh mods

seamus

I'm only to say this once:

Ignorance is no excuse

"I didn't know it was one of their gigs", is not the mod's problem, it's yours. It's your responsibility to check before posting.

End of.

Dudess

It's already moved. Please don't start a thread in After Hours just because more people are reading.

jsb wrote: »

or n00b without a clue?

Hardly. Date of joining is December 2005.

Normally I don't like the way people use Feedback purely as an outlet to pounce on thread starters for ridicule and even personal attacks, but OP, can't say I'll have much sympathy for you. Putting "mod is an idiot?" in the title and saying mods are power-hungry etc is overwhelmingly tedious.

Sherifu

Sherifu wrote: »

Damn you i wanted to post a lolcat first.

the_syco

kaimera wrote: »

in before lock

+1

=-=

/me continues to read the thread...

Slow Motion

Dudess wrote: »

And you're starting a thread about it in After Hours because...?

Standard procedure. You haven't been singled out.

There are only stickies all over the place (and have been for a good 18 months at this stage) advising you that discussion of any of that company's gigs is forbidden. I presume the mod took it in good faith that you'd surely be aware of this by now, and therefore you'd have checked out the promotions company before posting about the gig in question. It can't be too hard to find out.

Yup, that's us all right. To Feedback you go for much ridicule and cat imagery...

boom.jpg

tbh

To all the people posting in the feedback thread - can you see now the difference that the tone of a thread makes? The reason this thread is going the way it's going is purely and simply to do with the title.

Package

ok,, continuing on from the ah conversation.

valid point i dare you to refute..

if i mention that a band, any band, may be doing a gig in dublin. that doesnt automatically make it an mcd if that band HAPPEN to be playing a gig for arse company.

i heard on some forum from america that journey may be going to dublin..

i put the feelers out to see if anyone knew if journey were coming to dublin. i didnt mention a gig had been announced and did not mention arse company. they just happened to be playing a gig for that arse company.

am i meant to check if a band is playing a gig here for arse company every time i want to mention a band,,, any band???

KevIRL

I deleted the first thread as it was against a sitewide ban.

After the deleting the second thread I PM'ed the OP to inform him he'd been banned for a week and to read the charter before posting

The OP then proceeded to ask me why I did not PM him when I deleted the first thread. As I said in my reply, there are so many threads/posts that have to be deleted from gigs/events each day that I cannot PM each poster individually.

I then received a less than civil PM from the OP.

As for power hungry, that I just have to LOL at. I rarely dish out bans in gigs/events (or any forum I mod). In fact I'm sure a lot would say Im far too lienent in my approach.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

JIZZLORD

in before th e lock

6th

Package wrote: »

what else are you doing with your busy hectic lifestyle that you cant take 30 seconds to write a courtesy pm ???

What are you doing with your busy life that you cant Google the gig and see if its "one of them" gigs?

Boards.ie is not Google.

the_syco

Slow Motion wrote: »

boom.jpg

kaimera

am i meant to check if a band is playing a gig here for arse company every time i want to mention a band,,, any band???

Yes.

Karl Hungus

seamus wrote: »

I'm only to say this once:

Ignorance is no excuse

"I didn't know it was one of their gigs", is not the mod's problem, it's yours. It's your responsibility to check before posting.

End of.

Quoted for truth.

Package

6th wrote: »

What are you doing with your busy life that you cant Google the gig and see if its "one of them" gigs?

Boards.ie is not Google.

eh,, i did,,, couldnt find a thing,,, not even on THE BANDS website....

kaimera wrote: »

Yes.

do you really want me to check back through a load of threads to pick out actual bands people have mentioned that just happended to be playing an mcd gig to check the level of double standards?



oh,, and just because you dont know all the facts of a given situation at all times does not make you ignorant. it simply means you just havnt heard about it yet.

Dudess

dublad23 wrote: »

HaHa

That is ridiculous... The Mod should have just PM'd you saying it was a MCD gig or whatever - I wouldn't know if a gig was them either.

Idiot! A banning is Stupid!!

Oh do shut up. Of course you wouldn't know which promotions company it is - most of us wouldn't. So then, considering there are stickies all over the damn site, you do a bit of research on the gig first by googling it.

seamus

Package wrote: »

am i meant to check if a band is playing a gig here for arse company every time i want to mention a band,,, any band???

Yes.

do you really want me to check back through a load of threads to pick out actual bands people have mentioned that just happended to be playing an mcd gig to check the level of double standards?

Or you could use the wonderful super informatic machine in front of you to find out.

There's more to the web than Google and boards. It took me about 20 seconds to find out what the story was with said band.

Gandalf23

tbh wrote: »

To all the people posting in the feedback thread - can you see now the difference that the tone of a thread makes? The reason this thread is going the way it's going is purely and simply to do with the title.

Good point dude. Prime example of a simple decision by the mod being correct.

Also a prime example of a thread that should be locked quickly. Nothing to see here ...

meditraitor

gigs are for loosers

Beruthiel

KevIRL wrote: »

In fact I'm sure a lot would say Im far too lienent in my approach.

Indeed you are.
He should have been banned after the first thread.

kaimera

do you really want me to check back through a load of threads to pick out actual bands people have mentioned that just happended to be playing an mcd gig to check the level of double standards?

If you feel you must.

It's a sitewide ban on their name, gigs, events etc etc. Yes some will slip thru but for the most part [99% plus I'd say] it's removed by the mod/cmods/smods when noticed.

_blank_

Dragan

seamus wrote: »

There's more to the web than Google and boards. It took me about 20 seconds to find out what the story was with said band.

Bingo.

OP, logic would dictate two course of action.

One, admit you were in the wrong as boards.ie has certain rules and standards that it operates under. You broke them. It doesn't matter that you didn't know what they were, there are a million avenues to find them out through the very obvious Charter of each forum. Then you can go away, serve out the ban and return to post.

Two, you can continue slagging and insulting said Mod which would pretty much guarantee a continuation of Lolcats, general harsh feedback about how silly you really are and possible and eventual site ban because i don't see you dealing witht he above very well.

Package

kaimera wrote: »

It's a sitewide ban on their name, gigs, events etc etc. Yes some will slip thru but for the most part [99% plus I'd say] it's removed by the mod/cmods/smods when noticed.

your kidding right? sure its mentioned about 20 times in this thread alone. including in posts by


dublad23
dudess
seamus
kaimera

and of coarse

myself

. i really feel like going and finding a **** load of other incidents, but to be honest.i cant be arsed.

Dudess

Package wrote: »

your kidding right? sure its mentioned about 20 times in this thread alone. including in posts by


dublad23
dudess
seamus
kaimera

and of coarse

myself

. i really feel like going and finding a **** load of other incidents, but to be honest.i cant be arsed.

Look, you're in the wrong. I'd be more empathetic than some - as I said, I don't like the way Feedback is gleefully pounced on by people to use for ridiculing and belittling, but this is very black and white. You breached certain rules: apologise - you're not a victim being singled out for ill-treatment - and move on.

seamus

We're hardly going to avoid mentioning their name in a thread discussing your ban :rolleyes:

This is called an exceptional case. If I'd locked this, you would have just started another thread here, right? Then I'd have to ban you.

Sherifu

Pherekydes

Package wrote: »

power hungry mod twats

You might have had some sympathy had you just enquired in a civil fashion, but after the above I doubt you'll get many backers now.

Yore Ma probably neglected to tell you, but manners is always a good idea.

Sherifu

Slow coach wrote: »

You might have had some sympathy had you just enquired in a civil fashion, but after the above I doubt you'll get many backers now.

Yore Ma probably neglected to tell you, but manners is always a good idea.

The thread title is also tasty lets not forget.

Einstein

Plan_D

IBL
^^ Internet evolved

Package

Slow coach wrote: »

You might have had some sympathy had you just enquired in a civil fashion

im not looking for sympathy, im airing a grievance.

Slow coach wrote: »

I doubt you'll get many backers now.

im not building an army either. im simply saying that i should have got a courtesy message when the thread was deleted, otherwise, i thought it was a mistake that it didnt go throught,... so kev.. answer me this

was i banned for double posting, or posting about the gig?