I have sent the following request for lifting the ban on 2 of my account Honeypot and ReserviorHunt, but I feel that the purposeful nature of the bans from psting/pm imposed on my account(s) numerous times in the past for little to petty reasons (among others) warrants bringing this to the attention of other moderators and the public.
Here is the messages I am currently sending to all the moderators and admins on btctalk forum:
To All Whom It May Concern:
I have noticed in the past that my account Honeypot comes under increased scrutiny and ban for 'trolling' (usually for limited number of days) when I specifically have a loan offer on going and my pm/posting abilities will be vital to conducting my business. All of a sudden, a mod (no name is ever given of course) simply decides to ban the account from posting or sending pm because of 'trolling' and it has effected my abilities to conduct business on the forums.
This time, the obvious overstepping of moderator role in my case became much more clearer. A moderator, or someone, is clearly attempting to interfere with my ability to post and pm on the forums at the times when I most require such function. More clearly, I am currently conducting a loan agreement with parties involved here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919706.0;allAnd just today I discovered that not only has my Honeypot account been suspended from posting or sending pm for 'trolling', but also my alternate ReserviorHunt account (which I acknowledged publicly as my own) has been given the same ban as well (it has never been done before, but I have recently clarified numerous times publicly that both are mine). This is clearly a purposeful attack on my activities on the forums without grounds what so ever - nothing I have ever said or done constitutes 'trolling' any more then merely answering questions on my threads, or simply being outspoken in defense of my own position and business practices. It is a vague reason given clearly as an excuse to purposefully disrupt my trading and business activities on these forums. With many different posters and opinions flying about in the forums, I find it hard to believe such a flimsy excuse that is clearly being used by someone with a biased, and frankly extremely petulant and unprofessional mindset.
If you check past bans on Honeypot account, some of them coincidentally align with a number of my past loan offerings as well. I find this increasingly hard to believe to be a coincidence from the moderators - sometimes messages or reasons from weeks or months before are being used as a 'banned for trolling' reason, at the most inopportune time.
I would like the fair minded moderators to look into this incident and discover that there was little 'trolling' to warrant this action, and lift the bans on posting and pm abilities on both Honeypot and ReserviorHunt accounts as soon as possible. The fact that some cannot handle being criticized for their 'opinions' does not constitute 'trolling' or ban-able offense - I certainly do not feel the need to have the moderator act on my behalf and 'ban' others who disagree with me on my own loan threads or elsewhere on these forums.
The current situation is an obvious attempt at obstruction and overstepping of bounds by a moderator without any justified reason whatsoever, and curiously at a time when this would prove to be most inconvenient. It would be highly regrettable for such purposeful targeting by 'ban for trolling' to be a sticking point for the integrity of this forum.
Once again, I would ask all fair minded moderators and administrators to lift the ban on posting and pm abilities of my Honeypot and ReserviorHunt accounts, remove the undue scrutiny that my accounts seem to be under especially during times when I need the posting and pm privileges the most (curiously). May I also point out that neither accounts received any 'deleted posts' messages, merely an out of the blue ban for no reason given whatsoever other then 'trolling' - which is frankly ridiculous given that I was merely defending myself against unjustified attacks in my OWN loan thread as given above. I highly doubt a moderator jumps into ban people for 'trolling' when something is clearly nothing more then a minor argument - how would this forum have so many posts otherwise?
I have noticed that a particular individual in the past who trolled one of my loan threads, hilariousandco, is now a staff member on btc talk forums.
Relevant thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=398293.0;allI may consider it a possibility that constant trolling ban on my account and its abilities to send pm and post could be related to a moderator staff's abuse of rights.
Please let me know how this would proceed, and how this mistake can be corrected.
Regards,
Honeypot
p.s: In the past, theymos has been very late in lifting the auto ban for spam on Honeypot (there was no spam), even though myself and some moderators I spoke to sent him multiple messages both here and via email. I would hope for a more swift conclusion and lifting the unwarranted and unprofessionally executed ban this time around, instead of dragging it out and ignoring the emails and messages to further harm my business deals. Thank you again for your time and attention in this matter.
That is the end of my messages. As I mentioned, aside from vigorously defending my position, I see nothing that would remotely justify the current repeated use of moderator privileges for harassment, misuse, and clear interference and obstruction with an individual's businesses here on the forums. In fact, it is very curious to see that the offending parties who intruded and trolled, harassed or otherwise misused their voices on my threads have not been given any penalties whatsoever when I have merely defended my position more strongly and is under greater scrutiny. Arguments happen, but the way these 'ban's are being conveniently used at critical times seem to indicate a grievous breach of trust by a biased, and frankly personally motivated moderator action.
I would like to ask the community to see that this is a highly irregular and unprofessional usage of moderator rights in these forums, and correct this misuse and obvious abuse of 'banned from pm/posting because 'trolling'' when not even a deleted post message came through to give a reason for such an action.
Thank you for your time.