<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>IMC2 Ban</title> </head> <body> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Banned from IMC2</span><br> <br> <br> So on March 30 2008 I noticed I was having some trouble with my IMC2</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">connection, and after some fiddling and testing and reconnecting,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I eventually realized that I was probably banned. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I figured it had to be some sort of mixup, because I</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">was certain I hadn't broken any rules. I sent Kayle (the new IMC2</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">person that Samson handed control to) a PM asking what the deal</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">was, and I logged into an alternate mud to discuss it on IMC2,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">sure that the misunderstanding could be resolved.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It turned out that there was no rule breaking, no misunderstanding,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">nothing I was guilty of, other than being disliked:</span><br> <br> <br> [2008.05.30-19.58] Kayle@MW <ichat> You get that PM back Crat?</span><br> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-19.58] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> i'll look now</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-19.59] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> hmmm</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-19.59] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> so, some people didn't like some things i</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">said, and that's enough for me to be banned from imc2?</span><br> [2008.05.30-19.59] Scoyn@MW <ichat> I'm off to bed. Laters.<br> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">[2008.05.30-19.59] Kayle@MW <ichat> Things you said, and did.</span><br> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-19.59] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> i can understand that to an extent, except</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">i don't know which things those were</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-20.00] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> see, if i dont know exactly what rule i</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">broke, the punishment doesnt make sen</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">se</span><br> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">[2008.05.30-20.00] Kayle@MW <ichat> I'm too drunk for that kinda thought</span><br> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-20.00] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> do you see how i'd feel that way?</span><br> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">[2008.05.30-20.00] Kayle@MW <ichat> I thought I was doing good just typing it out</span><br> [2008.05.30-20.00] Samael@6Dragons <ichat> hmmm?<br> [2008.05.30-20.01] Samael@6Dragons <ichat> you should hope he gets raped... twice maybe<br> then he'll know how you feels...<br> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-20.01] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> i dunno about this rape stuff, but i think</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">there should be specific reasons for banning someone, not just "well, people don't like</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">you"</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-20.04] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> as i understood it, imc2 was about open</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">minds, open network, etc</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">[2008.05.30-20.04] Cratylus@Frontiers <ichat> if it's going to be about "my firends have</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">to like you", then maybe that should be on the banner</span><br> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">[2008.05.30-20.05] Kayle@MW <ichat> Too. Drunk. For. This.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br> <br> <br> And that's pretty much it. Subsequent PM's only made things clearer to me<br> in...uh...sharper language. It appears I'm persona non grata for reasons<br> of a personal nature, rather than policy reasons, so I have no way of knowing<br> how to resolve the problem, really. <br> <br> I will continue to try supporting the IMC2 client on the Dead Souls lib, though<br> I suspect it may be somewhat more difficult to do now.<br> <br> -Crat<br> <a href="http://dead-souls.net/">http://dead-souls.net/</a><br> </span></span> </body> </html>
