He has several accounts all banned for ban evasion. It seems that the underlying offense which caused him to initially get into trouble (and often the thing which causes his alts to get noticed) is excessive multi-posting.
I am not the one who allows multiple duplicate threads on the same subjects, thus forcing me to copy posts to the multiple threads on the same topics.
It is not a logically valid reason for perma-banning.
I've always wondered why your mods are so derelict that they can't stop the duplication of threads on the same subject matter.
But when he was warned and/or temporarily banned for this minor thing, he kept evading his bans.
Because your ban was inane for the reason I stated above. I refuse to follow inane rules made by unorganized fools.
This forum cannot operate unless its few rules are followed, so ignoring the warnings and temporary bans that you receive and continuing to do the same stuff is unacceptable.
Thus your policy is that posting in all the threads on the same subject matter is unacceptable. And whose fault is that. Duh.
People who do so are not welcome here.
And that is why your forum will die. And is dying.
I've also heard you were also censoring on Reddit.
His bans will not automatically expire, and any future alts we see from him will be permabanned. I may manually reconsider his ban if he promises to actually try not to break forum rules.
I will never promise to respect idiots who are corrupt, unorganized, and make inane rules.
Besides why would I allow you to be an authority over me, when I can simply disrupt your paradigm and destroy your corruption. The latter is much more sane and inspirational.
I am not coming back to your insane asylum. The final posts will be made here in this Meta thread.
The rules are not meant to silence anyone, but to keep the forum usable and fair. When someone multi-posts excessively, it monopolizes a thread in a way which harms everyone else's ability to communicate.
If by "multi-posts" you are referring to fact that I post multiple responses to different individuals in a thread, then your rule is batshit insane. How else am I supposed to conduct myself if I am not able to discuss all the issues presented in the thread. And my posts are often incredibly detailed because of the nature of the subject matter and thus necessarily too long to merge multiple posts into a single post, even though I do that often with horizontal rules separators. I fail to see the major difference between multiple posts and multiple posts merge into one post. It is the same content regardless.
Essentially your inane rule is that you are throttling how much effort someone can put into making content for your forum. That is stupid.
You are arbitrarily silencing me because others don't like the fact that I work very hard to cover all the issues.
If you really want a throttle, then simply institute one, some maximum number of posts per hour for example.
Based on his posts in this thread, I think that he will just continue to break rules if unbanned, so I will not unban him at this time.
Correct. And it will never change until you fix your problem. Or more likely, until I fix the problem and render your forum irrelevant.
bitcointalk.org is not a normal for-profit company. Even if banning iamnotback somehow stopped all future ad revenue, he would still be banned, since his rule-breaking is disrupting the forum's mission of hosting free discussion of Bitcoin and related topics.
You're disrupting your own forum. The end is near.
Similarly, I would welcome effective competition from decentralized forums, and I would be thrilled to be able to shut down bitcointalk.org in favor of a better-in-all-ways decentralized alternative.
I could almost like you, if I could possibly understand your behavior in allegedly censoring at Reddit and the inane throttling of my ability to create incredibly valuable content.
It is possible to turn my attitude into a positive one, if you simply fix the inane nonsense.
I'm quite amiable with people who don't destroy value. It is not difficult to be my friend, as my friends will attest.
But corruption and inane destruction of value will justifiably continue to earn my ire. I never intentionally put myself on the wrong side of what is correct. Those who do simply have some vested interest which prevents them from doing so or blindness to the correct reality.
But although decentralized forums have existed for a long time (eg. Freenet's FMS is almost exactly what iamnotback keeps describing, and has existed since before Bitcoin), they have unfortunately not been widely used since the era of the semi-decentralized Usenet system, mainly due to vastly inferior usability.
FMS is a messaging system, not a forum. You don't seem to understand most basic issues of technology, because there is no way that Freenet could implement a forum because afaik it doesn't have any distributed consensus on ordering of data in time. It is a P2P file sharing system, not a blockchain.
Also there are bound to be a huge laundry list with usability issues by any software created by an academic who doesn't have experience in creating commercial user facing software. For example, I don't even know if there is a web browser interface so that someone doesn't have to download an app just to taste it. And any mobile apps available?
Meanwhile
in Venezuela.
Edit on May 5:
Someone sent me a PM suggesting that I try to compromise with @Theymos. I declined. The reason is because I've been compromising for the past 4 years dealing with this inane insane asylum forum. I am tired of fighting with all the trolls and being blindsided by moderation. I think I need to create something better. I don't think I need to go backwards into the cesspool. So thanks, but no thanks. If BCT is improved, I might change my mind.
To elaborate a bit, I am a pragmatic person and did choose to use BCT rather than attempt a more difficult challenge. I am normally a person who is willing to compromise in order to facilitate the most efficient path forward. But I also learned in life that once you've been severely abused, if you come back for more, you'll be abused more. The pattern we see early in a relationship never changes. I have learned from life, that what we see is what we get. People don't change.
So no! I am not going to come back for more abuse. Sorry. There is no possible compromise other than if BCT is improved to fix what is causing the problems. But of course it won't be improved ever. It won't change.
Additionally the rules are ambiguous and arbitrary and I would have to walk on eggshells. Sorry I don't want to live my life worried about everything. BCT isn't worth the headaches.
I do not want to continue discussions on a site where I have deal with so many trolls and don't have the moderation tools available so I can efficiently squelch their strife. It simply isn't worth the disruption to production. It is a cesspool of noise and strife. I don't want my important technological content being buried and obscured by trolls and subject to deletion by mods. It creates too much duplication of work and wastes enormous quantities of time dealing with crap. This time could be better invested in productive activities.
To the idiot who keeps sending me PMs and thinks he knows better than me, you're just another troll. Please stop. It has nothing to do with my ego. It has to do with stopping the daily strife, so that I can get work done. Stop being so worried about how I will market my project. I know what I am doing. And you don't! So please STFU and stop sending me PMs. I don't need your advice nor your opinion. It's just more noise. I get so much noise from this forum. If you can do something important, go do it. Stop running your mouth and causing me to waste more time explaining it to you. I don't need to explain. I know what I am doing and that is the only person who needs to know at this juncture.
A permissionless crypto-currency is not well matched to a permissioned forum. Mavericks don't attain greatness by compromising their goals and ideals and pussy footing around.
Oh btw, I never wrote that I wouldn't consider buying advertising (from @Theymos or from users' signature space) in the future. It remains a possibility, although there are other choices as well such as Coindesk, Coinmarketcap, etc.. I haven't analyzed that yet. Too premature.
Due to the recent changes implemented by theymos I would not trust to post in a thread I've not started. Sorry.
Re: MPOE-PR Perma-Banned after warning, Temp Ban more appropriate?
You don't get banned for swearing at a moderator. MPOE-PR was asked to stop spamming/trolling by Maged, and rather than stopping, she swore at him. The act of insulting Maged itself didn't get her banned, it was the warning, and then lack of acknowledgement of the warning that got the ban.