HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, hey, join the club. Welcome to the "Banned from Rentech.com" club.

[ZephyrZodiac]

How about a special forum with that name?  (Or so people would realise it didn't refer to solar energy:  Banned from VS)?

[Inge]

ZephyrZodiac, have you emailed the Admin of VS to let them know the problem?  I don't think she has intended for people to be blocked other than perhaps Pesacdo,  it could be an error in the configuration

[ZephyrZodiac]

No, I must admit I haven't, I just saw that I was not allowed to start a thread, and beat a hasty retreat - feathers ruffled a bit, I guess.  Be interesting to know where everyone is in the same boat!

[Inge]

Well I am going to let her know that at least one person seems to be having genuine problems posting, and see if she knows what's wrong.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, as I said, I didn't actually attempt to start a thread, I just saw that I wasn't allowed to!

[Inge]

Ok, well if you find out you have problems after all, and you have any trouble contacting Rentechd, post again in this thread and I'll let her know.

[nectere]

is the site down?

[ZephyrZodiac]

Appears to be!  What are you up to, Pescado? ::)ROFL

[J. M. Pescado]

Didn't do it. Just a routine router outage, seeing the same problems out on the #grah channel, which is still on the same server.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Bet you wish you had!

[J. M. Pescado]

No, not really. If I really wished I had, I'd have done it by now.

[ZephyrZodiac]

She'd probably like to do it to you, though!

Why do you want to kick Inge?

[J. M. Pescado]

Why do you want to kick Inge?

That is the kind of dumb question you'd only ask if you've never been to the chat. Kicking Inge is an ancient and traditional ritual.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, I've never been to "the chat" - I have enough chatting at SF, so I can't see why it's a dumb question!  If you came to SF and asked about something that was traditional there, nobody would say you were dumb to ask!  And why kick anyone!

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, I've never been to "the chat" - I have enough chatting at SF, so I can't see why it's a dumb question!  If you came to SF and asked about something that was traditional there, nobody would say you were dumb to ask!  And why kick anyone!

It's dumb because you're asking me why I would kick and abuse people. You should know better than to ask this by now.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, I'd hoped I was wrong about you!

[KellyQ]

Okay, not to stir the pot (oh who am I kidding, let's stir the pot) here is a quote from Rentench's official post regarding bans:
 
"I have recently had numerous PM's requesting that this site post a banning list of who we have banned and why a person was banned. There are a few reasons we don't do this, but the main reason is that we do not ban people from this site, so a list would just be a waste of resources - a database search that returned nothing. If this site did ban it would not require a list for you to view - you can go look at any users profile and see their status."
She further states how banning is against policy and no one is ever banned, some people just cannot post:

 "So if anyone has complained to you that they are ‘banned' from this site, and in turn asked you to question that ‘banning' for them, you can give them a very simple answer: Variousimmers does not place people on banned status from the site. Many people prefer to claim ‘banned' since it tends to make people angry and feel they are unfairly treating a user or are not willing to admit what they have done wrong to warrant being on moderated or read-only status. We make very sure that users always have access to read the forums and to download, no matter what they may have done that lost them the right to post."

So you see JM, you must not be "banned", you just want to "make people angry"

[J. M. Pescado]

As usual, Rentech lies: Observe:

Notice from the address bar that I am not attempting to post or do anything. In fact, I'm banned outright from the front page. Read-only? Pssh. You decide: Banned or not?

So yes, a search would return something: Me! You can only imagine the absolutely awful publicity THAT would be, to have my name as the sole name on the list for no apparent reason.

[dawnkeeper]

I only joined various simmers because I was stalking you - now I have another membership to a site which will remain unused! 
Oh well. *returns to lurking*

Oooooh! Careful what you say! <sarcasm>You might be disrespecting some people.</sarcasm> Ugh. I got yelled at about that when I posted like that. I have never used my login to go back to that site since.

[MutantBunny]

Well, either you're attempting to post in a section of the rentech.com forums which do not permit the starting of user threads(in which case you're stupid and deserve to have your lips ripped off), Rentech has broken the forums, or Rentech has decided to punish people who have defected to here. As it's likely you're not dumb enough to make the first mistake, given that More Awesome Than You has a similar board structure, it's probably one of the other two. Who knows? If the second, Rentech is probably busily trying to blame me for it already. If the last option, well, I don't put it above Rentech. She *REAAAAALLY* hates me. And probably anyone remotely associated with me.

No, it was forum wide. I see that that is gone now tho as mysteriously as it was applied....see: She is nuts.

[Now&Then]

"She further states how banning is against policy and no one is ever banned, some people just cannot post"

If this is what she claims, than why is it that it is stated "the administrator may have disabled your account"

Is it not, that disabling and banning go hand in hand?
 

[ZephyrZodiac]

"She further states how banning is against policy and no one is ever banned, some people just cannot post"

If this is what she claims, than why is it that it is stated "the administrator may have disabled your account"

Is it not, that disabling and banning go hand in hand?
 

One would have thought so!

[JenW]

She has a screenshot that refutes yours, Pescado...but of course there's no way to know *when* her screenshot was taken. Could have been 30 seconds before she banned you.

Jen

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, if Pescado is truly not banned, then she should do the decent thing and tell him so!  Since she hasn't done so...............