There have been a few places that have felt forced to triple their security protocols because they didn’t like me enough to fear me coming back. There was a game corner that required ID’s, there have been Discord servers that required you give them your socials, there are places that have exiled my whole family, etc. and it usually bugs people. Ironically I’ve never circumvented a ban before in my life, but they still feel the need to make sure.
No, I’m not pulling your leg, I have saved links to show for it.
…are you proud of this?
For the main part, no. I don’t know who’d be fond of being banished for reasons outside their knowledge/control. I guess I’m just prone to misunderstandings. For example, I got semi-banned from a mall once because I was using my leftover arcade tokens in the fountain; I didn’t know people collect the money in America, I just thought it was for making wishes (was worth it, I’m grateful mine came true though). My most famous ban on the internet was from an art website because I made a subreddit dedicated to it and they considered it a trademark violation. The ban became famous because at one point the guy in charge of the website tried to raid it and Reddit basically poofed his squad of fifty something people. He then forced their Discord server to require every member be kicked and invited back in on the condition that each member can give details about their other social media accounts so they could be tracked, even though I never wanted to rejoin their website or server anyways. I’m certainly amazed at myself, but that’s not exactly pride.
My dude, what have you been doing?
Mostly misunderstandings/miscommunications. Not something like I did a certain thing every time, just a domino kind of thing, otherwise I’d understand a lot more about what exactly is going on. The ease at which people have been able to point to something and say “_____ is why you’re banned” kind of scares me into thinking something deeper is going on. That isn’t to say I can’t map out their supposed reasoning, like with the examples I gave elsewhere in this reply chain. Ironically and oddly I do get unbanned from half of the affected places, like this famous one where I was basically Jesused back onto the world’s strictest website.
Holy shit, this is some massive turbo yikes.
How so?
I’m not gonna take responsibility and try to be your wake up call or anything, but this:
The ease at which people have been able to point to something and say “_____ is why you’re banned” kind of scares me into thinking something deeper is going on.
This thought would normally cause someone to be introspective. “What is it about oneself which is causing me to get banned?”. “Something deeper is probably going on” internally.
For the record, I’ve only ever been banned once in my life for something I’ve done or said, and that was 15 years ago. There are ways to say and do things which won’t get you banned. I’ve been on many forums and participated in many subreddits. I’ve even moderated before. The fact that you have a written down online code of honor/ruleset (regardless of its contents) is a red flag.
On the contrary. I wrote an online code (I assume these are what you meant) due to the conflicts implying a war of unspoken rules. One would have reason to believe the rules are instinctive, and I wrote them as a kind of commentary that amounts to “where are these followed”.
The question I was asked in the first place was kind of a loaded question, and I was trying to answer it the best I could without calling them out on that. Asking “what have you been doing” implies it’s the same everywhere. For example, this is why I’ve been semi-banned from DeviantArt, which is very different from the Tumblr situation. It’s not impossible that someone is removed from several places in a repetitive fashion, especially when there’s a large number of people trying to perpetuate the effect (I did already point to this). Currently the only site I’ve been completely banned from without relent is Inkblot as explained in this comment chain. A mass raid, being attacked, friends of mine being judged for associating… at what point can I not call it karmic?
In the end, you could sum it up with the prevalence of unspoken rules.
You are a very special individual. You should take a composition class or something. So, people can make sense of some of the insane weird rambling you do.
You say that like you can’t simply ask me to clarify myself if you don’t understand me (which I say to everyone, in case this explains the bulk of my downvotes, though this abrupt message is the first time anyone brought it up as if that showcases great communication). I am a non-native-English speaker with some difficulty expressing myself, but I try my best and consider myself good enough not to betray grammar and hopefully by extension the ability to add up what I’m trying to communicate.
Less word, more better.
I’m sorry one’s number of words used may have exasperated/dishonored you. I will shrink it down as much as I can, not that I haven’t already.
Im more impressed that you have spaces and a slash in your username…
There is a setting in the account settings on Lemmy where you can choose a screen name that isn’t your username (my username on here is ShinigamiOokamiRyuu).
That’s one of the edgiest names I’ve seen in a while. It’s like a furaffinity account from 2007. A Japanese lone wolf from the death note anime? Lol. Thanks for giving me a flashback.
Close actually. The username was first decided upon when on DeviantArt (the account still being there). I just reused the username on Lemmy. Gotta go with site vibes.
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I have never understood why this was the go to punishment for students that didn’t want to be at school.
“Don’t want to be at school? Well then, fine! You’re not allowed at school. Ha, that sure showed that rambunctious rascal!”
“Uhh…” plays Zelda or whatever
Because now the parents have to provide proper care for the children. it’s a way to involve the parents.
it fails if the parents are not involved in their kids lives or are just struggling to make ends meet as it is.
It also removes disruptive kids from.the system. Which should allow the other kids to focus.
That makes the most sense. Thanks.
Reverse psychology?
Absolutely no hot tubs in the dumpster.
My grade school stopped allowing kids to go up for second helpings of hot lunch because of me. In 8th grade I recruited the help of quite a few classmates and managed to take down 50 chicken nuggets, 2 milks, a pile of veggies, and two dessert cakes at one lunch hour.
This performance became somewhat infamous, and I learned from a friend that they banned second helpings for the next school year in part because of that occurrence.
Still kind of proud of that one. And not sure I could manage 50 nuggets now as an adult.
Is your name chad?
It is not. But if Chad shares my gluttonous exploits then I salute him and I hope he stopped doing things like that in time to be a healthy adult :)
My workplace has a no s’mores rule.
Shortly before I started, they had a small fad of people making s’mores in the lunch room microwave. One of the trainees was a younger dude who had never lived on his own, and apparently had no idea what an appropriate amount of time was to microwave it, and put it in for 5 minutes or something, filling pretty much the building up with smoke.
We’re a 911 dispatch center, so evacuating the building to go to our backup center is a whole thing, they were able to avoid having to do that but just barely.
So no s’mores.
No more s’mores?
Was his name Ryan?
Robbie
Intake procedure at a psych ward. They look inside your phone case before giving it too you for your visiting time, or whatever
LSD?
nah. not good to store it in such a warm place
Well, shit. Now I’m curious about what you could have been smuggling in a phone case. Tabs were about the only thing I could think of that would fit. That’s not a whole lot of cocaine.
Could you explain why, or maybe what you did that created this rule.
I had a razor blade hidden in my phone case. I told them about this during intake when I realized they would probably give it back to me at some point.
They thanked me for telling them, and then said something to themselves about how they should check every phone
Why?
I was there for self harm
Every third shift is an undesired shift.
I arranged my six weeks of time off accordingly spread evenly around the year.
Now the undesired shift gets postponed and I have to tske that in account too when making long term appointments.“Do not wash hands with boiling water”. Saw it happen. The dude wasn’t sure the water from the boiler was really hot, so he ran it over his hand to check…
Cages placed over the top part of all skeeball games to prevent cheating in order to get tickets to trade in for prizes. Game room, Mike’s Grill, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA, 1993-present.
late 1970s mcdonalds menu says hamburger and next line is slice of cheese. smart ass kid rolls in and orders just a slice of cheese. cashier has to bring over the manager… doesnt know how to prepare and serve it. manager has to call district manager, who has to call corporate. its on the menu they have to serve it, and safely. they end up heating up a slice on wax paper. after that all the mcdonalds menus in the country is changed to say cheeseburger.
Impressive.
Many years ago when my workplace first adopted hot desking they installed a row of lockers for staff to keeping our stuff in, now we weren’t going to have our own desks. I jokingly said, because it reminded me of being in school, that I was going to cover mine in pictures of The Cure and the Pixies. This must have been overhead by the nearby PA of our senior manager because less than an hour later an email came round forbidding the decoration of lockers. She was very much a ‘make arbitrary rules on a whim’ kind of manager rather than a ‘actually manage people and get work done’ kind of manager. She also tried to introduce ridiculous rules over what kinds of food people could eat at their desks which fell apart when her favourite underling walked into the office after a week on leave and oblivious to BreakfastGate eating an unlawful bacon sandwich, and there was gleeful uproar and she had to back down. She was also hilariously fired less than a year into the job, for lying about being ill and then posting on Twitter (which we were all following because she was apparently too dumb to understand what ‘public’ means) about shopping for shoes and throwing parties.
Driving home drunk one night while in college, my brother decided to drive straight, instead of slowing to take the 45° right turn. Soon after the town put up very large, reflective arrows pointing out the turn. He survived, though his Camaro did not.
No bubbles or balloon volleyball in The Ballroom restaurant at Wakulla Springs Lodge. Honest we were just having fun. Of course the management has changed since then, so maybe they forgot.
Balloon volleyball? You mean Keepy Uppy?
LoL, Yes that game. Big restaurant, high ceilings.
How do you play bubble volleyball?nvm, I just can’t comprehend english
Back in my day, like this.
Catan: game group house ruled that you can’t play the monopoly card after starting negotiations. I felt like I lost something important that day.
That’s silly, taking advantage of that information is part of the game.
What’s the card do
To give an actual answer, Monopoly in Catan allows the player who played the card to name a resource, and every other player must give all of that resource to the player who played the card. I imagine the OP negotiated using a specific resource, got what they wanted, then monopolied the traded cards back.
Ha I mean… It’s within the rules right?
Ye, I think his friends just regarded it as a dick move lol. Personally, I always enjoyed using the card later in the game when people start getting 2x resources every other roll.
Let’s you get out of jail for free
My girlfriend’s dad did that trick once. He asked if anyone was willing to trade stone, and once everyone piped up he played the monopoly card. She was so upset.
My preschool class took a field trip to our local children’s museum, which was a very tactile experience, so they really emphasized that you could touch anything there. My three year old brain wanted to know what happened when I touched the fire alarm. I understand shortly after they changed that emphasis: you could touch almost anything there.
“press any button” prompt
Presses power button
Shocked pichachu
