Rant: Issues with a different Forum

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PavementPilot

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Note to Mods, if you see fit to delete this thread, then I understand, but I need to vent this out.

I was a member of [a site] for a while. I received a one week ban for posting a political rant in the Anything Else section. They have a 'No Politics' rule, or so they say. My rant was basically a slam of the Liberals (Canadian Politics). I accepted my ban without question, because I broke the rules. No problem.

A week or two later, someone posts a picture of the PM holding a camera wrong, and there was a few comments about his abililty to govern the country. I PM'ed the mod that banned me, and questioned why he and other mods where allowing and even posting in this thread. He told me that 'I was just trying to stir the pot'. Fine whatever.

A week ago there was a federal election in Canada. The show that was showing all the election results was called 'Canada Votes'. I toke a picture of my TV showing this show, and posted it to a contest on the forum called '31 days of May', where May 1st was the letter A and the 2nd was the letter B etc. So on the 3rd I post this picture with only the caption as the title of my photo 'Canada Votes'. No policital rant, rave or slam. I got banned again for 1 week. So, when my banning was over, I went and erased every single post I made there. That took 4 hours. Then posted something akin to this post here, and told them they could 'take their forum and go sit and a corner'.

They removed that post and I have been banned for life. Whatever.

All I ask is that if the mods allow this thread to stay open that everyone please keep it clean. No slander, slamming or flaming. I just needed to get this off my chest. Thank you.
 
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fotojack

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Nope, you're not gonna get banned for that. Seems to me you have a legitimate beef, according to what you posted here. Look on the bright side.........you're on a better site anyway. :) And you're a Senior Member here. That counts for something, bud. :)
 

happlegate11

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Apparently all of them had opposite political views as you and you were marked from then on! Ridiculous..PS Pete you crack me up "DUDE!!!! Your Canadian????" HAHAHA! Such excitement from what must have been a surprise to you!!
 

MaxC

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Wow
After reading your post here what are my findings.
I'm a member on there and its the coolest Canadian forum, people are very come and its a very relax atmosphere.
I remember your thread actually both of them and moderators gave you you multiple warning before you got ban, they gave you an option to stop but you continue on, and than on the second thread when they gave you a ban they also asked you stay away from politics and send you to another forum that deals with things like this. You continue on starting new threads and it looked like you wanted to be ban
You ignored it all so it happen again.
And then when you came back you started deleting threads and posts I'm not surprised they banned you deserved it
Welcome to HostPapa is the coolest canadian photography forum, and that is all they want it to be.
The only person you should be pissed off at is yourself, as after multiple requests to stop your election related posts and threads you continued on and try to use different threads to post your threads with political content (all your post were election related :) ) so guess what you probable deserved it.
 
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happlegate11

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Wow
After reading your post here what are my findings.
I'm a member on there and its the coolest Canadian forum, people are very come and its a very relax atmosphere.
I remember your thread actually both of them and moderators gave you you multiple warning before you got ban, they gave you an option to stop but you continue on, and than on the second thread when they gave you a ban they also asked you stay away from politics and send you to another forum that deals with things like this. You continue on starting new threads and it looked like you wanted to be ban
You ignored it all so it happen again.
And then when you came back you started deleting threads and posts I'm not surprised they banned you deserved it [site name removed] http://www.Canadian-Photographer.cais the coolest canadian photography forum, and that is all they want it to be.
The only person you should be pissed off at is yourself, as after multiple requests to stop your election related posts and threads you continued on and try to use different threads to post your threads with political content (all your post were election related :) ) so guess what you probable deserved it.

I think the point of his rant is that then others posted about politics and they were not banned.....that is not the cool part. If one person in a forum is banned from talking about politics then everyone should be also.
 
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MaxC

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I think the point of his rant is that then others posted about politics and they were not banned.....that is not the cool part. If one person in a forum is banned from talking about politics then everyone should be also.

The only problem is that no one else posted about election other than Pavement Pilot, so I think this isn't really a rant is it now.

There is always two sides to every story, and knowing the people there for only 6 months now, I know they are great people and all of them are super cool.

And when you get ask to stop you get ask to stop, I just don't understand why some people don't get it.
 

Browncoat

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This thread is now closed. Drama from another site doesn't need to trickle its way here.

As a general rule of thumb, the "off topic" section of any forum should never discuss politics, race, or religion because the odds are high that someone will be offended. It's cannon fodder for forum trolls who like to stoke the fires and get a heated discussion going that will almost certainly lead to someone being suspended or even banned. Whatever happened on the other site has nothing to do with the goings on here, except as it exists in this thread.

No worries, Rick...but nothing good will come of this thread either if it is allowed to continue. You've been a welcome addition here, and are a valued member of this community. Let's keep it that way!
 
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