Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

minuteman62-64

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I sometimes use the marineengine.com site to supplement what I can find on here for engine-specific issues. I know some of you guys do also since I see your posts.

Last couple of days I noticed that site has been kind of squirrelly - my posts didn't show up or were missing after initially showing up. Trouble typing text in posts. Today I logged on and got the message:
You have been banned for the following reason: No reason was specified
Date the ban will be lifted: Never


Anybody have this experience? No apparent way to contact the site moderator without being able to log on. I reviewed the forum rules and haven't violated any of them (at least not as I can determine).

Seems like kind of an imperialist way to run a site. And I've purchased stuff from them. Oh well, I get most of my info here.
 

avenger79

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

they may have been hacked. one of the other sites I use had some issues recently.
 

Summer Fun

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

If you tell RetardoMarine that he's wrong or stupid about something,

He'll whine and cry to the Mods and have you banned. :rolleyes:


Did you do that ?.
 

Don S

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

If you tell RetardoMarine that he's wrong or stupid about something, He'll whine and cry to the Mods and have you banned. :rolleyes:

HA_HA_HA.gif
 

Bronlonius

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

they may have been hacked. one of the other sites I use had some issues recently.

More likely that the OP's account on that forum got hacked, someone posted a bunch of spam from it, and the moderators deleted said spam and banned the account. That seems like the most logical explanation. Whatever the hackers/spammers did to get it banned has already been deleted.
 

minuteman62-64

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

More likely that the OP's account on that forum got hacked, someone posted a bunch of spam from it, and the moderators deleted said spam and banned the account. That seems like the most logical explanation. Whatever the hackers/spammers did to get it banned has already been deleted.

Hmm. That could be - might explain why for a day or so my posts didn't show up.

Any ideas on how to get back in the good graces of the moderators - when there is no apparent way to contact said moderators?

I guess I could start over with a new ID and e-mail address.
 

Summer Fun

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

when there is no apparent way to contact said moderators?

Just use their contact us and the Administrator will get your email. :)

Its on the bottom of the main forum page.
 

Bronlonius

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

It's worth a try. They probably blocked the IP address that the spam was posted from (if what I think might have happened is how it went down), but hopefully not yours, which should be logged with all of your non-spam posts. I'd just start a new account, and contact the moderators, see why they banned your account, and they will probably be able to restore your post count, etc. once they realize you are just a normal person and not a spam-bot.
 

minuteman62-64

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Re: Banned? Anybody Been Banned?

Just use their contact us and the Administrator will get your email. :)

Its on the bottom of the main forum page.


Bingo! Did so and got this response this a.m.:

I apologize for the problem. Recently we had a flood of spam messages and I think your account accidentally got banned while we were trying to clean up. I’m sure it was a mistake.

The good news is that you access is now restored, you should be able to log in again. The bad news is that your previous posts have been lost. Again, I apologize. We appreciate your participation in the forums and hope you will continue on.

Thanks for getting in touch. Please feel free to reply by email, or call us at (800) 209-9624 if you need any further assistance.


I'll check today to see if I am truly back on the site.
 
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