amibay broken again?

[commodorejohn]

Well, good to hear it's only maintenance - just wish more sites could be bothered to put up a notification page during downtime instead of letting people just assume it's in trouble...

[commodorejohn]

That's usually the norm, most good site admins would do this.

You must live on a better Internet than I do...

[commodorejohn]

I lol'd so hard when I first read this ... couldn't happen to a more deserving website

Spot the banned AmiBay members in this thread!

[commodorejohn]

you don't have to be banned to realise its not a very good forum.

I beg to differ, it's quite a nice forum as long as you read and respect the rules.

[commodorejohn]

I once posted an old Apple II photo in their photo forum and said I’d gotten it for $200 at a thrift store. The post was removed because it contained a dollar amount in the body of the text.

Some threads above and below it also contained dollar amounts, but were not touched.  Amibay’s moderators all appear to interpret their forum rules differently or randomly.

By the way, if I posted this on Amibay, it would certainly get me banned.

When was this? I've been a member there since 2010, and as far as I've observed the rules are quite consistently applied, and moderation is generally as gentle as it can be, unless the member in question is an obvious troll or discovered to be a scammer.

[commodorejohn]

Amibay is run by a bunch of egoist geek control freaks.  Internet stalking, privacy invasions, ip tracking, is standard procedure for these people. This kind of behavior is everything we hate in Apple and Microsoft and is against the spirit of Amiga.  And they wonder why their site gets hacked all the time! Lulz.

Uh, can you point me to any time anybody's been tracked who wasn't a scammer? I've seen plenty of dumbasses trying to cheat members out of their money and get tracked down via IP logs and publically-available information which is then handed on to the proper authorities, but I can't recall anybody else being given a hard time. (The only edge case I can think of is AppleIIFan, who was a known repeat scammer in the Apple II community and came over to Amibay allegedly trying to go straight; I didn't really agree with the mods' preemptive action there, but he did have a history.)

And if you think logging IPs is "invasion of privacy," you don't really understand much about how the Internet works.

[commodorejohn]

I've been banned from there 3 times and still go back to both buy and sell.

What were you banned for, if you don't mind my asking?

[commodorejohn]

First time was for catching a high ranking member of Amibay out plagurizing other people's work

Really? Do tell.

[commodorejohn]

"That's not a feature, it's a bug!"

Sheesh...

[commodorejohn]

I'm American, I've never had anybody there give me any crap about it.

[commodorejohn]

Well over a dozen, actually. Never had a problem with any of them, except one guy that turned out to be a scammer and was banned (before I paid, thankfully.)

[commodorejohn]

yeah the broken record until they give a proper response to their wrongdoings.

So if we really want to go over this one conflict again, in the Amibay thread where your banning was discussed, Merlin said that you had the opportunity to contact the admins and dispute the judgement/seek some kind of reconciliation but hadn't (as of the time of writing.) Did you ever seek acquittal through the channels provided? Or are you just complaining about something you didn't even try to fix?