metlin's Journal: Banned Again & Brilliant Response from Robert Rozeboom

Turns out I've been banned from home. No, it's not DHCP - it's a static IP, and one day I'm able to post and the other day I'm not. No particular reason, either - I had have two of my comments modded down, but then I had been modded up atleast double that many times.

So, I mailed [e-mail]. And what do I get? A blindingly brilliant and insightful mail from the Einstein reincarnate Robert Rozeboom -

"You have been downmodded too many times and are in timeout for a bit."

Wow! Hey, genius.

Anyway, I mailed him back telling him in extremely precise terms that I can post from elsewhere, just not from my home. Even though I've been modded up, not down, in the recent past.

No response yet. I wonder what else his blindingly awesome intellect is going to conjure up next.

I call you my son not cause you shine boy, but 'cause you are my own. You ain't too bright, boy.

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[plover]

No, they ban because of perceived trolling, too.

Basically, they ban an IP for a week or so if they see a pattern of downmodded stuff. I don't know why, but that's what they do. I know they banned our firewall proxy at work for a week. When I wrote, (and I suspect everyone writes) he said "you and others".

It's a temporary condition, and you'll be back online in a week or so (at least I was.)

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[metlin]

I think you might be right - they probably perceived my being modded down as trollish behavior, or I got the IP of some dude who's been trolling earlier (hey, I'm on a univ. network).

Either way, sucks!

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[plover]

If all your univ. IP is behind a common firewall, then you could be the victim of someone else's trollish behavior.

My advice is to hunt them down with a big, heavy clue stick, and offer them friendly advice on how to post so you don't have to show up with the clue stick a second time.

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[metlin]

I do not know, I've hardly trolled from my new IP. It's likely that someone else has, since I'm in the intern housing of Xavier Univ. in Cincinnati and using their network.

Banned from home?

[Ethelred Unraed]

Well, you need a place to sleep? You can crash at my place, dude.

(From the Obvious Stupid Joke Department.)

Cheers,

Ethelred