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Subject: Banned From Forums Forever?

Note to self: good tags for ODST...BLAM, BOOM, DUDE, DD57, UBER.

Sorry, very off-topic but since I am banned from xbox forums I have to ask here...I go to post something and then it says this account is banned from posting on forums until 11-22-2159 at 7:06 AM....Does that mean I am banned from the forums until november 22 of the year 2159???? I don't like perm bans....

At least I have Bungie :)

  • 12.09.2007 9:58 AM PDT

Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

Probably.

Servers can only register certain ranges of dates, so this is probably the latest setting they can apply for those servers.

  • 12.09.2007 10:03 AM PDT

Note to self: good tags for ODST...BLAM, BOOM, DUDE, DD57, UBER.

Dude...why can't they just say you are banned forever because I don't know about you, but I don't think I'll be around when my ban runs out in 2159...

  • 12.09.2007 10:05 AM PDT

Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"

Posted by: DaveDude57
Dude...why can't they just say you are banned forever because I don't know about you, but I don't think I'll be around when my ban runs out in 2159...


That's the point.

It's not supposed to be a joke, or some way to himiliate you. A computer doesn't know the term "forever". You've got to put things in terms of what they are programmed to understand. There must be an end date, and that end date is just some arbitrarily long off date.

  • 12.09.2007 10:08 AM PDT
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hey you never know!!!

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my grandon will carry on your xbox forum legacy!

  • 12.09.2007 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: DaveDude57
Dude...why can't they just say you are banned forever because I don't know about you, but I don't think I'll be around when my ban runs out in 2159...


That's the point.

It's not supposed to be a joke, or some way to himiliate you. A computer doesn't know the term "forever". You've got to put things in terms of what they are programmed to understand. There must be an end date, and that end date is just some arbitrarily long off date.

Heh... well, you never know. Shishka said he used to ban people until the year 2552 just for fun.

But, joking aside, you're almost certainly right. Whoever designed their banning system probably didn't add an option to have a ban's end date not set (which would result in a never ending ban, i.e., permanent). That option is certainly possible (Bnet has, as far as I'm aware, true permanent bans), but it's not strictly necessary, as evidenced by the OP's situation.

As a side note, if you do manage to live for 152 more years, good luck remembering your password.

  • 12.09.2007 11:25 AM PDT

Note to self: good tags for ODST...BLAM, BOOM, DUDE, DD57, UBER.

god thats not fair...i wonder what i even did it said i used profanity but i dont think i did....do u think it was my sig? "argueing on the internet is like the special olympics, even if u win ur still retarded..."

  • 12.09.2007 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: DaveDude57
Dude...why can't they just say you are banned forever because I don't know about you, but I don't think I'll be around when my ban runs out in 2159...


Ill probably still be around in that time, I'll make sure you are un-banned.

  • 12.09.2007 2:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: DaveDude57
god thats not fair...i wonder what i even did it said i used profanity but i dont think i did....do u think it was my sig? "argueing on the internet is like the special olympics, even if u win ur still retarded..."

Yea, I think that may be the reason.

  • 12.09.2007 2:19 PM PDT
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So now I'm a beta tester. Let's see where this goes.

I not think it's as bad though as the guy I saw that was banned until 12/31/9999.

  • 12.09.2007 3:06 PM PDT