Ever Been Banned from a Site?

[ppine]

It will probably not surprise anyone, but I just got banned from Bushcraft USA today. There really was no discussion, they just said get lost.

This was an example of a site for newbies, that is carefully controlled. I got tired of videos of how to boil water, and camping in the backyard. People needed help selecting a wool blanket. They were in love with knives and axes, but didn't seem to use them much.

I was taken aback by the experience however, and will try to learn from it. Once again it is great to be on this forum, where people have the experience to know what they are talking about, and the compassion to tell it like it is with respect. Anyone else ever been banned from a website?

[Pathfinder1]

ppine;
It will probably not surprise anyone, but I just got banned from Bushcraft USA today. There really was no discussion, they just said get lost.

This was an example of a site for newbies, that is carefully controlled. I got tired of videos of how to boil water, and camping in the backyard. People needed help selecting a wool blanket. They were in love with knives and axes, but didn't seem to use them much.

I was taken aback by the experience however, and will try to learn from it. Once again it is great to be on this forum, where people have the experience to know what they are talking about, and the compassion to tell it like it is with respect. Anyone else ever been banned from a website?




Hi...


Not yet, ppine...not yet...!!

[Cappy]

Well like you said dude it may not surprise yall but I too was asked to take a hike offn a fly fishing forum. It was a bunch of River runs through it"" Fly snobs that figured if ya didn't worship the Great God of hand tied flies ya weren't worthy to be there. As yall know by now i type like I talk and use big bold brown fonts. To me this reflects who I am . To them it made me a non conformist. They also couldnot abide the fact that i used my fly rod to fish bass, perch, and used it as a flipping stick for red fish and specs and even a jig pole for crappie. Blasphemy they said!!!!Turns out the forum was way too narrow minded for me. Das what I love about this place. its title is outdoors not specific to any one activity. What keeps me coming back here is its filled with well rounded outdoor folk who understand we all aint fly snobs or back packing techno geeks, etc

[Judy Ann]

Sorry that you were banned ppine and Cappy from those sites. If it weren't for advice from everyone here, both newbie and experienced folks, I would never have come to enjoy camping and backpacking as much as I do. I enjoy reading most topics and one never knows when some little bit of information might come in handy down the road!

[Grandpa]

They haven't banned me but I've banned a couple of them. Got tired of a small handful taking over a website when they are merely postcard wilderness officiondos. The beauty of this site is we can agree to disagree with respect.....most times.

[wvbreamfisherman]

Well - kinda sorta banned from a political site. They didn't like getting disagreed with. They also didn't like having all my points backed up by impeccable references...

[BGreen]

Who wants to be on a site that doesn't want you anyway? I'm too easy to get along with on websites. I try not to make waves. If I start talking religion or politics, I know things can heat up, so I usually avoid those topics. I don't like confrontation and online stress. If things heat up, I just stop visiting the site.

[CozInCowtown]

Never been banned but like mentioned above, I have banned a few sites over the years.
Monster Muleys was my first. I registered and made a first introduction post, came back later that afternoon and found being called many nasty names and told where to stick it.

Never even replied and never went back.
I had my own forum for many years, Texas Hunting Forums, and like this site required members to be civil and respectful to each other. Feel free to disagree and attack the content but DO NOT ATTACK OTHER MEMBERS!!
Unfortunately I did have to bann a few over the years, I hated to do it but hey, if you can't live by a few simple rules...
ppine, you are home so there is no reason to wander off.
DC

[ghostdog]

Originally Posted by BGreen

...If I start talking religion or politics, I know things can heat up, so I usually avoid those topics...

Those two topics can ruin any forum. Nobody has ever changed their minds during the innane arguments.


Bushcraft USA…Ppine, your observations of that site are spot on except you left out the two moderator trolls who like to throw public temper tantrums just to say Lookee Meee!!! It is amazingly sad. One even posted a video of himself ranting on about something incomprehensible, contradicting himself and exclaiming that it’s because he is an American so nobody can tell him anything. It went on for near half and hour. It was close after another moderator troll did something similar in text. It is unprofessional but four year old mentalities know nothing about that. I was never involved with any of it, just discussed to the point that it just turned me off like hearing any whiny crybaby.

Did you see most of their camping pictures had vehicles in them? Wilderness navigation and the remote terrain for bushcrafting mountain men are just too scary! And you are right, much of the stuff is very elementary, the kinds of things we were doing when we were ten years old. The elementary stuff and all the backyard playpen stuff didn’t bother me as much as the adolescent moderating crew did but that did induce me to ban that site from my computer. The mods there are inept juvenile acting fools who most likely startle at their own shadow in real life. Some of the ones who feel inferior will try to destroy the creativity of others at times. The confident ones encourage it.

Don’t worry over it any. You are a good participant and have a good way of putting things, at time poetic or even profound. I don’t agree with anyone 100% of the time on everything but you are a good one to have around the campfire. It is their loss.

[Sagebrusher]

The "offending" thread. I don't necessarily completely agree with you ppine, being a noob myself when it comes to bushcraft, but their response was way over the top. I do agree that calling that trip an "expedition" is ridiculous, though. Maybe if it had involved some bushwhacking or a lot of dragging/carrying of the canoes in order to get to some inaccessible area...

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