Forums - Have You Ever Been Screwed By Strangers Over The Internet?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(win98 @ Feb 1 2007, 09:40 PM) [snapback]277564[/snapback]</div>

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I've had cr*p before. Lots of people have. In 2004 when I first got into message boards I got banned from one called winworld because I was new back then and had a problem in which I had a fight through pm with an admin who started giving me **** just bceause I was being really active and had heaps of topic ideas. Only problem was it got classed as spam because one day I made about 10 new topics which all had good reasons like. "What version of windows do you run?" So anyway when the re did the fourms I came back with one other guy who was getting dissed with me in 2006 You know what they did? even though him and be were being sensabile they started to diss us even mroe so it made them look like noobs not us. Anyway for members of my fourm I think I figured out that one of the spammers might have been an admin from that fourm one of the ones from during last year. Well im done with it and after I was banned in late 2004, I read some of the topics on that fourm and it had turned into a hell hole after lots oif arguments over crap that I never bothered following up on to see what it stared from even though there were links gallore. Thats why they started afresh. I won't post a link as it was asite that gave away free copys of abandonwware windows version which in the end I worked out was warez. (Back then I did not know what it was and learnt in 2005 because of here)
Anyway Abandonia has one of the best ever communitys compared to some other fourms. Don't let me rant about how last year I got banned from a runescape fourm after not completting a trade after a guy I killed in the wilderness in Runescape set me up along with the rest of the gang I was in.
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Themed forums are like that. Usually the admins view themselves as the experts and are above it all. Generic replies about the subject of choice have usually been covered before and sometimes admins tend to get a bit aggitated if new members do not pick up the idea quickly enough.

It's a harsh reality, but that's the way it goes. Besides, if you believe you're right, you probably are. Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, so if they banned you for unintentional spamming, then to hell with them. They're obviously just running the website to plug their stuff, and usually forums are just some sort of a front for much needed criticism. It's how they get their traffic.