Take one asshole spam bot, add in a quart of permaban, and add a pinch of Ticker not working. Bake for 5 minutes. Serves one mod.
To start off, I’m posting in the dragon megathread again. They got their laughs, but I bounced back.
The guy that I said was a sick pervert actually helped me to come back. And he’s actually a really cool guy once you get to know him.
Even said I could talk to him through Steam if I wanted to, about dragons and Facepunch.
I might take him up on that offer.
But what this post is about. As usual on a night like tonight, I’m trying to find something to browse on Facepunch, looking for threads I’ve posted in and seeing if there was anything going on that would interest me.
Then along comes a damn spammer bot that was last seen two days ago, doing the same thing he did before, trying to advertise or trick people into clicking a few links in every thread he made, and never responding to them.
What gets me is how is he still able to post. Haven’t the mods IP banned him yet?
I got sick of this shit. But instead of posting to one of the bot’s threads, I did the smart thing and reported him to the first mod I saw.
After he got permabanned, then I posted in a thread where others are asking why isn’t he banned, because I felt I was safe enough to do so, asking the mods why isn’t he IP banned yet. Saying he might have something like 50 alts, or behind several proxies.
Anyway, soon Dragon deleted all the threads and cleaned up General Discussion, as I was viewing one of the spam bot’s threads. I got worried that I might’ve fallen for a ban-me thread. But that wasn’t the case, thankfully.
Two minutes later, I decide to check the Ticker, and the thing stops short instead of loading it. When I saw that I closed out the page. A feeling of fear began flowing through my body.
I went to YouTube just to get a dramatic feeling of what just happened, by typing “YOU ARE BANNED Facepunch” in the search bar, and played the first movie.
My fear grew once I saw that. My heart began to race, and I felt like I just got smacked hard in the head by a large, wooden hammer with “BAN” written on the side, in red letters.
Instead of painfully checking to see if I’ve truly been banned, I PMed one of my friends on Steam and have him check the Event Log if my name is listed in it.
He said “No”. A feeling of “WTF?!” suddenly shot up my body, and asked him again if he saw the words “banned” or “permabanned”. Again, he said No.
How.. in the fuck? I couldn’t access the ticker! That’s the definite sign you’re banned! So, I turned off my 2nd monitor after bringing Firefox up, typed in Facepunch.com, put my hand over my face as I turned back on my monitor, and slowly moved it down.
And I didn’t see the Refugee Camp. I saw the entire forum! I WASN’T banned! 😀
Ohh thank god!! I swore I was about to have a heart attack when I saw that. Others are starting to report that the ticker is down for them too. So that proves I was never banned.
I feel so stupid getting that scared being banned over a forum. But not just any forum. One of the most active forums on the internet.
And the most active forum I’ve ever been on in my life.