I was once Zoted for over a year during the romney affair. Moral of the story, never directly insult the owner/operator.
I’m tripolar so I should be entitled to three accounts.
I’ve had three or four over the years. mainly because I forgot my password and the original email address was long gone.
Original me...only banned once for a couple days.
Did not know making a post asking for poop jokes for your 7 year old nephew would be a bad thing.
Huh..you live...learn. etc.
:P
I was banned in 2016 when many Never Trumpers fell by the wayside. But, while I supported Trump once Walker was out of the race, I was criticizing FreeRepublic itself, usually by contrasting the halcyon days. Jim swung the ax, not any of the minions.
I did not beg forgiveness, or make any attempt to rejoin by any means including trying a new account. After two years of lurking, I hit the donate button one day, by mistake. I pledged a $3 donation (the minimum donation) by check and commented that I would become a monthly donor once again, but since I was banned, I was not motivated to do so. My account was restored almost immediately, before I had mailed my check or signed up as a monthly donor.
I have posting privileges, I am a monthly donor, and I sent my $3 check. All is well. I still miss the old days, especially the paragraph + length posts by real experts. But that’s become the entire internet these days, so we just have to live with it.
Have had one account since 99 or 00, started following FR during the Clinton/Lewinski era probably close to the beginning of FR. I have never posted much so there was never much that I could get banned for. Lot of good posters have come and gone over the years. Always enjoyed Mia T’s posts but they were so graphic heavy, I imagine it was hell on bandwidth. Heard that she was banned but never knew why.
There used to be a rather odd poster named something like A+Bert. He was banned, wonder if he came back with a new name?
Never got zotted but came close. I simply have lurked for years now.
I have never had more than one account though.
How many are sleeper registrations from 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2016, whenever trolls register a bunch of accounts during election and controversy years, lose some to zot, and start using some with a first post 6-8 years after signup date?
This should be good.
That’s where the term ‘retread’ comes from. Instant zot if you’re caught.
Ash...is that you?
It would probably take using a different browser, but I bet it could be done.
Oh, be very careful of going to nutso leftist sites without at least masking your ip.
It is very easy to compile a list of ip addys of the people who post on a site like FR and if you see them sneaking around your SJW site you can target them to see if their computer is vulnerable to attack.
Use TOR browser at least!
Here’s one easy way to compile ip addys of people on a site like FR.
Post tiny images on the site in threads but store the image on a server that you control...so you can get the ip logs.
A good method is to create a super tiny image of somehing like a period . as it loads super fast, puts no real strain of a home server, and 99.999% of people will have no clue it is an image and not an actual character.
They can read IP’s so no to different accounts.Before that we had a lot of trolls.Troll hunting was fun and you could get them to melt down.I am friends with a few who have left-they are on facebook.Both have active accounts here just stopped posting .
I once knew of a FReeper that transferred (sold) his FReep name to another individual.
Mods found out.
Zotted that name.
No.
The proper procedure is to crawl back to JimRob with hat in hand, apologize for your unacceptable actions, and ask o be reinstated.
I also know that some Freepers have successfully asked JimRob to change their screen name, which is apparently technically feasible.
My understanding is that it is considered patently underhanded—without explicit permission for JimRob—to even attempt to register under a difference screen name once you have been zotted.
If I'm wrong about any of the above, somebody please correct me...
Wasn’t ferret banned, and reborn as hobb or hobbb? Didn’t make a secret of it.
Well ah shore am grateful JimRob lets me play here. I’m naughty and opinionated and he hasn’t banned me yet. <3 <3 <3
But if I did have another account it would be called BuckNaked and I’d pretend to be a conservative guy closeted working in the hard core porn film industry.