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Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:50 pm

I'm over here at the comments section because it seems there's been a mix-up at Cracked and my account has been banned. :(

I'm trying to sort it out, so I'm hoping someone checking this can help me out. My last forum post was about a technical issue, and my last comments were about a burgeoning appreciation for ballet and the difference between Greek goddesses, so I'm guessing there was some sort of technical error, since this morning, 9/15, my account is banned and I can no longer PM, access the forums or post comments.

Seeing as how this is likely accidental, that poses a slight problem - I can't PM a person who can likely help sort this out, nor post in the forums to clear up the issue!

Ericthebearjew referred me here a while back, and has told me that some Cracked contributors do check in. I plan on contributing to Cracked at some point, which is kind of difficult to do with a banned account.

Is there a known technical issue with accounts being banned randomly? Does anyone have any info they'd be generous enough to help with?

Thanks!
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby sunglasses » Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:54 pm

I'm sorry, but even though some of our members have contributed none of us are actual staff of Cracked. So we can't help you in that regard. But maybe one or two of us can look over on PWoT to see if anything is going on. I can try to look over there after I get off work, but that won't be for a few hours.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:04 pm

Thank you very much, I'd appreciate that!
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby sunglasses » Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:08 pm

and by few hours, I mean probably closer to 5 or 6. But yeah, I'll get back to you then.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:35 pm

Sure, no rush. It's not urgent, just bewildering. Thanks for your help.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby Taluun » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:13 pm

It may help if we knew your cracked.com username. Is it the same as your tcs name?
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby iMURDAu » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:30 pm

Fate has spoken. Your forthcoming articles are meant for TCS not Cracked.

I'm guessing you were banned for some trivial reason and that admins there are calling you names behind your back. I base that off absolutely nothing other than wild speculation that I made up.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:32 pm

It's the same, WilliamThallis, as I used here.

I had completely forgotten that Bakudai, who handles the abusive comments section, had given me his email in PM. I emailed and got in touch with him, so he's looking into this and it may get sorted out.

It looks like I was banned on the 2nd for no reason with no notes along with some other people who were obvious trolls. Working on getting it sorted out.

Thanks for everyone's responses, though, I really appreciate it.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:09 pm

Uh, Eric...

Would it offend you if I told you I'm just not much of a drinker?

I do look stunning in heels and an evening dress, however.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby NathanLoiselle » Tue Sep 15, 2015 11:35 pm

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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby Tesseracts » Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:16 am

williamthallis wrote:It's the same, WilliamThallis, as I used here.

I had completely forgotten that Bakudai, who handles the abusive comments section, had given me his email in PM. I emailed and got in touch with him, so he's looking into this and it may get sorted out.

It looks like I was banned on the 2nd for no reason with no notes along with some other people who were obvious trolls. Working on getting it sorted out.

Thanks for everyone's responses, though, I really appreciate it.

I'm glad it was resolved.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:25 am

Tesseracts, it may get sorted out. I'd rather not get too much into detail, but there was a little hiccup a while back that ended up with a lot of people getting banned, some of them trolls. It seems I got swept up in that despite not being one. I haven't exactly endeared myself to some people higher up, so, despite it being a big misunderstanding, I'm not holding my breath for the outcome. The main issue is my ip being banned in the forums, which means I can't write for Cracked.

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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby Tesseracts » Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:28 am

williamthallis wrote:Tesseracts, it may get sorted out. I'd rather not get too much into detail, but there was a little hiccup a while back that ended up with a lot of people getting banned, some of them trolls. It seems I got swept up in that despite not being one. I haven't exactly endeared myself to some people higher up, so, despite it being a big misunderstanding, I'm not holding my breath for the outcome. The main issue is my ip being banned in the forums, which means I can't write for Cracked.

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That... is indeed an issue.

It seems a lot of people haven't endeared themselves to the higher ups on that website, including a few people who I know are unconfrontational.
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Re: Hello Cracked People, a little help?

Postby williamthallis » Wed Sep 16, 2015 3:20 am

Tesseracts,

I've noticed the same. Even the most passive people get treated like they are screaming, and the text based nature of it doesn't help since it lacks social cues. I can empathize to a certain degree, since even getting to be a higher up there means you have to put up with a lot of crap. I didn't even know what the word 'doxxing' was until I saw what happened with John Cheese. After his last column I wrote him a PM telling him how much I enjoy his writing and that I don't get the negativity he seems to attract, especially since he gets so personal with information, which I have a lot of respect for and would probably not be willing to do myself. With that kind of scrutiny, even mild criticism can come across like an insult.

The difference is I have experience playing live music, where you have to deal with hecklers. You play in a bar, you're playing in front of people who have been drinking. It comes with the territory, and you can't just kick them out if they shout something rude. One thing I've noticed that is very different between musicians and writers is that writers don't develop that thick skin because they don't have people staring back at them while they do their thing.

Bucholz wrote a column that brought it up best - even the idiots are right sometimes. I played a gig where the PA kept feeding back, and someone yelled about it and they were right. Not my group's fault, but it was annoying. Not the best way to voice your opinion, but it wasn't baseless. The difference was I couldn't just ban the guy by clicking a button, or delete his voice shouting at me so I engaged him and made the crowd laugh. He shut up, we kept playing.

I can imagine that each time you see criticism, and you have the ability to make it go away with a click of a button, it gets easier to do, since we're human after all. At some point, though, it goes too far and it becomes interpreting any criticism as an attack. It's understandable, but not excusable since other people pay the price. One of the best things I ever figured out for writing was to treat it like a performance - imagine myself reading everything I just wrote to someone while looking them in the eyes, and then seeing how bad I'd cringe, like playing music live when I played a solo too long and I got *that look* from someone. Urgh Icky. It's a good way to catch my own BS.

I forget sometimes writers are sheltered so on my part it's probably my directness that was part of why it did not go well. I prefer to think of it as a miscommunication among people with the right intentions from different backgrounds, that way I don't have enemies, just potential future friends. I always try and look at how I look from their perspective while I'm saying what I'm saying, so I can anticipate any potential unnecessary animosity. It works. Unless I get banned that is... Then I suppose it's time to move on.
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