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ATTENTION, EVERYBODY. ACCOUNTS ARE BEING BANNED.

That is right! Certain users are now not able to post on Slashdot anymore. Like many Slashdot readers, I have more than one account to allow myself to post in different attitudes. Right now, I am using my primary account to post this and risking my somewhat-good karma to get the news out.

I decided two weeks ago to logout and login under my secondary account to post something slightly off topic. After going back to the story and previewing my reply, I noticed that I had this infamous message:

"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are [MD5 string] and [MD5 string] and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number [numerical address] and your username [insert name here]."

Stunned, I logged-out and didn't bother to post what I wanted to.

A few days later, I logged in under that secondary account once again and discovered the same message. A bit annoyed, I didn't bother again.

However, today, I decided to check up on this and see if this was just something buggered up - it wasn't.

Here are some examples:

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex01.p ng
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex02.p ng
Under my normal account, posting is perfectly fine and I can see my post in preview mode and successfully post it.

However...

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex03.p ng
Trying to post under my secondary account (which will remain anonymous) gets me this:
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex04.p ng

This obviously means that Slashdot is banning accounts that the editors do not like. Sure, it may just be my account, however, it does mean that if they do not want someone, they can ban them. What if Bill Gates, considered the most evil man on the planet by most readers of this site, had an actual account here and was revealed to everybody? What would stop Mr. Malda from banning him from posting in Linux threads or Microsoft threads praising Microsoft's products?

According to Mr. Malda, this is what is stated on account banning:

"Occassionally we ban IPs who are abusing our servers in some way. If this happens, please read How do I get an IP Unbanned. These bans exist to prevent Denial of Service attacks that either overburden our servers, or flood the forums.
The moderation system has a variety of limits in it as well, but these bans are temporary and exist more as a rate limiter to make sure that people stay on topic, and everyone gets a chance to speak. You can learn more about the moderation system by reading Comments and Moderation"

Not once did I DoS Slashdot or flood an article with this said account. As well, this account is not banned via an IP as I can successfully post under this account without anything in my way.

I ask this not to be moderated down. Please save your moderation points for people who do deserve them. However, I do hope that the editors come out and tell us something because this is very frustrating.

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY. ACCOUNTS ARE BEING BANNED.

That is right! Certain users are now not able to post on Slashdot anymore. Like many Slashdot readers, I have more than one account to allow myself to post in different attitudes. Right now, I am using my primary account to post this and risking my somewhat-good karma to get the news out.

I decided two weeks ago to logout and login under my secondary account to post something slightly off topic. After going back to the story and previewing my reply, I noticed that I had this infamous message:

"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are [MD5 string] and [MD5 string] and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number [numerical address] and your username [insert name here]."

Stunned, I logged-out and didn't bother to post what I wanted to.

A few days later, I logged in under that secondary account once again and discovered the same message. A bit annoyed, I didn't bother again.

However, today, I decided to check up on this and see if this was just something buggered up - it wasn't.

Here are some examples:

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex01.p ng
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex02.p ng
Under my normal account, posting is perfectly fine and I can see my post in preview mode and successfully post it.

However...

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex03.p ng
Trying to post under my secondary account (which will remain anonymous) gets me this:
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex04.p ng

This obviously means that Slashdot is banning accounts that the editors do not like. Sure, it may just be my account, however, it does mean that if they do not want someone, they can ban them. What if Bill Gates, considered the most evil man on the planet by most readers of this site, had an actual account here and was revealed to everybody? What would stop Mr. Malda from banning him from posting in Linux threads or Microsoft threads praising Microsoft's products?

According to Mr. Malda, this is what is stated on account banning:

"Occassionally we ban IPs who are abusing our servers in some way. If this happens, please read How do I get an IP Unbanned. These bans exist to prevent Denial of Service attacks that either overburden our servers, or flood the forums.
The moderation system has a variety of limits in it as well, but these bans are temporary and exist more as a rate limiter to make sure that people stay on topic, and everyone gets a chance to speak. You can learn more about the moderation system by reading Comments and Moderation"

Not once did I DoS Slashdot or flood an article with this said account. As well, this account is not banned via an IP as I can successfully post under this account without anything in my way.

I ask this not to be moderated down. Please save your moderation points for people who do deserve them. However, I do hope that the editors come out and tell us something because this is very frustrating.

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY. ACCOUNTS ARE BEING BANNED.

That is right! Certain users are now not able to post on Slashdot anymore. Like many Slashdot readers, I have more than one account to allow myself to post in different attitudes. Right now, I am using my primary account to post this and risking my somewhat-good karma to get the news out.

I decided two weeks ago to logout and login under my secondary account to post something slightly off topic. After going back to the story and previewing my reply, I noticed that I had this infamous message:

"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are [MD5 string] and [MD5 string] and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number [numerical address] and your username [insert name here]."

Stunned, I logged-out and didn't bother to post what I wanted to.

A few days later, I logged in under that secondary account once again and discovered the same message. A bit annoyed, I didn't bother again.

However, today, I decided to check up on this and see if this was just something buggered up - it wasn't.

Here are some examples:

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex01.p ng
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex02.p ng
Under my normal account, posting is perfectly fine and I can see my post in preview mode and successfully post it.

However...

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex03.p ng
Trying to post under my secondary account (which will remain anonymous) gets me this:
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex04.p ng

This obviously means that Slashdot is banning accounts that the editors do not like. Sure, it may just be my account, however, it does mean that if they do not want someone, they can ban them. What if Bill Gates, considered the most evil man on the planet by most readers of this site, had an actual account here and was revealed to everybody? What would stop Mr. Malda from banning him from posting in Linux threads or Microsoft threads praising Microsoft's products?

According to Mr. Malda, this is what is stated on account banning:

"Occassionally we ban IPs who are abusing our servers in some way. If this happens, please read How do I get an IP Unbanned. These bans exist to prevent Denial of Service attacks that either overburden our servers, or flood the forums.
The moderation system has a variety of limits in it as well, but these bans are temporary and exist more as a rate limiter to make sure that people stay on topic, and everyone gets a chance to speak. You can learn more about the moderation system by reading Comments and Moderation"

Not once did I DoS Slashdot or flood an article with this said account. As well, this account is not banned via an IP as I can successfully post under this account without anything in my way.

I ask this not to be moderated down. Please save your moderation points for people who do deserve them. However, I do hope that the editors come out and tell us something because this is very frustrating.

ATTENTION, EVERYBODY. ACCOUNTS ARE BEING BANNED.

That is right! Certain users are now not able to post on Slashdot anymore. Like many Slashdot readers, I have more than one account to allow myself to post in different attitudes. Right now, I am using my primary account to post this and risking my somewhat-good karma to get the news out.

I decided two weeks ago to logout and login under my secondary account to post something slightly off topic. After going back to the story and previewing my reply, I noticed that I had this infamous message:

"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are [MD5 string] and [MD5 string] and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number [numerical address] and your username [insert name here]."

Stunned, I logged-out and didn't bother to post what I wanted to.

A few days later, I logged in under that secondary account once again and discovered the same message. A bit annoyed, I didn't bother again.

However, today, I decided to check up on this and see if this was just something buggered up - it wasn't.

Here are some examples:

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex01.p ng
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex02.p ng
Under my normal account, posting is perfectly fine and I can see my post in preview mode and successfully post it.

However...

http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex03.p ng
Trying to post under my secondary account (which will remain anonymous) gets me this:
http://animefreak.arkaic.com/slashdot/troll_ex04.p ng

This obviously means that Slashdot is banning accounts that the editors do not like. Sure, it may just be my account, however, it does mean that if they do not want someone, they can ban them. What if Bill Gates, considered the most evil man on the planet by most readers of this site, had an actual account here and was revealed to everybody? What would stop Mr. Malda from banning him from posting in Linux threads or Microsoft threads praising Microsoft's products?

According to Mr. Malda, this is what is stated on account banning:

"Occassionally we ban IPs who are abusing our servers in some way. If this happens, please read How do I get an IP Unbanned. These bans exist to prevent Denial of Service attacks that either overburden our servers, or flood the forums.
The moderation system has a variety of limits in it as well, but these bans are temporary and exist more as a rate limiter to make sure that people stay on topic, and everyone gets a chance to speak. You can learn more about the moderation system by reading Comments and Moderation"

Not once did I DoS Slashdot or flood an article with this said account. As well, this account is not banned via an IP as I can successfully post under this account without anything in my way.

I ask this not to be moderated down. Please save your moderation points for people who do deserve them. However, I do hope that the editors come out and tell us something because this is very frustrating.

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