Re: Getting banned for what?

--- In [email protected], Rami Rustom <rombomb@...> wrote:
>
> On 2/13 a poster on a forum I was on emailed me suggesting that I join
> intjforum.com. She did this partly because she saw that I wasn't a
> good fit for her forum -- apparently I analyzed and disagreed too
> much.
> 
> So I started on the intj forum (username rombomb), specifically in the
> Philosophy and Ethics section, and I started slow (relative to me on
> other forums). I started posting on a few threads trying to get a feel
> for the culture of the forum. I was pleased to see that there were
> lots of people willing to analyze and disagree a lot.
> 
> Within 2 days I was posting 30-40 posts a day.
> 
> In some of the threads some major ideas became a bottleneck, e.g. how
> to judge ideas. So in these cases what I did was one of two things:
> (1) link to an essay from me or Elliot, or (2) I started a new thread
> which was a repost of an essay from me or Elliot.
> 
> This went on for 10 days and then I was banned for spamming. No one
> contacted me. I was just banned, for ever, according to the automated
> message that pops up when I login.
> 
> So I looked up the rules under spamming and I didn't break any of the rules.
> 
> Had someone told me that they consider what I'm doing spamming, and
> specifically explained to me what I shouldn't be doing, I'd stop. The
> forum is private property and the moral choice is to follow the rules
> of the owner, even if they created a new rule in light of my "new"
> posting style. But no one contacted me to explain.
> 
> So I have been judged unfairly. I've been branded a bad person,
> without opportunity for appeal (I can't contact them). This conflicts
> with the tradition "innocent until proven guilty".
> 
> 
> I checked my member page (without logging in) and noticed that 30 to
> 50 of my posts had been deleted. All of my OP's that had no replies
> and that were reposts of essays were deleted. And some of my posts in
> other threads were deleted (I think because I posted too many links in
> them).
> 
> Something I found ironic is that one of the posts that was deleted was
> in response to an OP where the poster said that he's a philosophy
> student whose professor said that he's a (Platonic) idealist, and he
> wanted to know what that means. So I explained, and then I went
> further explaining that I expect that his professor is a
> justificationist and that the rival epistemology is CR, and I linked
> to my OP on Jism vs CRism (which was a repost from my blog). At the
> end of the post I said that he should decide for himself which
> epistemology he agrees with. Maybe he didn't read my post in time
> (before it was deleted). That sucks!
> 
> 
> Another thing I find interesting is that on this forum I had more
> success than on any other non-Popperian forum. By "success" I mean
> having discussions that reached conclusions (e.g. on abortion) instead
> of dying as soon as I disagreed with a poster.
> 
> 
> So why was I banned? Maybe a computer algorythm did it automatically.
> Or maybe a person decided.
> 
> Should I have been banned? Was I spamming? I don't think so. Ever link
> I posted was relevant to the topic. And each link I provided is an
> opportunity to learn more. You'd think that a philosophy forum would
> like that.
> 
> -- Rami Rustom
> http://ramirustom.blogspot.com
>

Can't comment on the banning but on the large amount of posting you were doing, I'm impressed by your success in life that you can spend your time like this (not being sarcastic since I'm aware you've got some kind of business, dependents etc).