Garry.Crabtree wrote:Yeah fucking idiots, its pretty damn easy to circumnavigate if you want to. Anyone who watches BBC iPlayer online outside the UK knows exactly how to change their IP address quickly and without notice.

Still think its quite astounding they banned me for it. Sounds like someone had a sense of humour failure today.

I'm staggered they banned you Garry, I never thought your humour was nasty or confrontational. Out of interest did you get any explanation by PM.

Garry.Crabtree wrote:Yeah fucking idiots, its pretty damn easy to circumnavigate if you want to. Anyone who watches BBC iPlayer online outside the UK knows exactly how to change their IP address quickly and without notice.

Still think its quite astounding they banned me for it. Sounds like someone had a sense of humour failure today.

Just curious: what exactly did you post that pissed them off?

Also curious. As someone else said, your humour was never confrontational and you typically made fun of anything/anyone.

First post here. I have just been banned also. I don't know why. I have posted about 20 posts in 4 years.

RogueAnt wrote:First post here. I have just been banned also. I don't know why. I have posted about 20 posts in 4 years.

See? You should have posted more!
Seriously, though, what have you done to deserve this? And: welcome to this board!

Edit: I see you said you don't know why you were banned (yes, it's still early for me, sorry). When was your last post and what was it about, if you don't mind me asking?

Yeah, welcome aboard!

All K440 refugees can find bottles of water and rehydration packs on their left.

We're glad to see you're still alive!

Wow... so much for their big Glasnost I guess. Welcome aboards to the newcomers.

No explanation given.
Username Taken, you are tech savvy, do you think this could be just a technical problem?
Either that or I think my duff jokes are a threat to their plans for world forum domination.

What it seems like they've done is banned a bunch of commonly shared IP addresses based on having banned the users. The problem is that cambodian ISPs don't have a BIG pool of IPs they use.... so the odds of others getting them is high. On top of that, many of you sometimes post from the same public wifi/etc... and there's a screen where admins can see the other people who post from the same IP as any user. They seem to then be banning all of those users because they think they're sock puppets.

I'm still able to access the site. And I was pretty vocal about my "disappointment" of K440 and some admins, probably mores than many who were banned (though not so much in that CEO thread). I find it hard to believe they'd ban a bunch of posters without them being very vocal (at least once). Maybe KIR has been scanning CEO threads for people to ban? Or maybe Garry was considered to be one of those "bores" KIR always talked about banning? Seems a bit weird, but a technical glitch seems far-fetched. Probably more tooth-ache bans...