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I got Google Banned from TV Tropes
Okay, basically, about three weeks ago, I got Google Banned from TV Tropes. It's not completely disruptive, the ban doesn't stop me from going to the site, but I do get automatically redirected whenever I try accessing a forum discussion. Basically, I got banned for suicidal tendencies or something (they never told me the actual reason, but, when I went to the thread after signing out someone was explaining the procedure for tropers with suicidal tendencies....basically to isolate them, yeah, that'll help). Basically, I had started going on a depressive and semi-suicidal series of ramblings in the Romance Thread (doesn't seem like something worthy of such a ban, but, whatever). I had been warned about two or three weeks earlier after a suspension for similar reasons, although I was far worse then than I was now. Basically, I don't know what to do, I can't even log into my account and they've designed it to be impossible for me to appeal, and I can't even just make a new account because whenever I try I never get the confirmation email.
What can I do? I really just need the account because I want to write a story and don't want either someone to steal my ideas or to be accused of stealing ideas.
What can I do? I really just need the account because I want to write a story and don't want either someone to steal my ideas or to be accused of stealing ideas.
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A number of us IJBMers (and people in many other web communities, including some closely associated ones) have permanently left TVT one way or another, be it voluntary or involuntary, so it's not at all the end of the world.
It's also possible that they didn't want to deal with the liability of what if you did self-harm or even commit suicide while having something to do with their site. That said, for what it's worth, this site also doesn't like dealing with that liability, so just so you know,
Not saying I don't want to be nice or anything -- I do feel sympathetic -- but just saying that I can't guarantee anything. We certainly can't help you get back on TVT, as none of us are mods or even know the mods there nowadays, as far as I know.
As a more practical question, what specifically do you need the account for, to write your story? If it's just seeing your userpage or a specific thread I can go look it up since I still have an active account there.
I didn't really need it, I just don't want people to think either I stole ideas and I don't want people to steal my ideas, it was also a nice place to have in order to get critique on political affairs, since my story starts getting into the politics of its world after a while. My account was OmniGoat, I have some posts in the Villian Critique Thread, the Nation Critique Thread, DBZ, Avatar, and FMA Threads, some in Race Relations, but the ones that got me banned were in the Romance Thread, but they got hidden as "troll comments".
Honestly, I only ever freaked out twice, including this time, and this time it was far more controlled and relaxed than the last freak out, maybe it was near the beginning when I mentioned everyone in one of the gaming forums wanted me dead, although I calmed down fast enough and admitted I hyperbolized because I wasn't in the proper mental state. Of course, just as I was starting to get sane again I got banned, I don't even think the other tropers really agreed with it.
I was thinking by now TVT's got mods who do think before acting, so I dunno. Perhaps that was a break in the letter of the law. If I remember well, back in the day there was a rather tiresome wave of self-pitying, so they put up these rules on the logic of "if it's serious, perhaps you need real help and not Internet forums, and if it's just whining, here's the door".
By the way, once upon a time we had a thread on writing advice, but to be honest, it's been a while since it had a community.
One of the people in the thread that got me banned mentioned that suicide threats (funny thing was that I never actually mentioned killing myself and people just inferred from the way I spoke that I was depressed and possibly suicidal) were responded to by isolation of the troper and contact from staff, except I seemed to have just gotten perma-banned with no contact at all.
You mentioned something about the other sub-forums?
Anyway, I vaguely recall there was some channel of communication for google-banned... if only I knew what was it about. Other folks in here were more active in TVT's drama heyday, perhaps they know something.
I was just mentioning the other subs where I was active in case the person I replied to wanted to learn more about me, although I didn't cause any offenses their, just in the romance thread, and, I can't go to the appeal page and never get replies when I send emails.
I'm 17, in therapy, and on meds
Are you a mod or something?
I mean, can't you help me, if you are?
Can anyone help me out though, like, seriously, I go there mainly for critique and I want my intellectually created stuff to be secure. It's like, I dunno, I just think a perma-ban was so extreme, I only had one suspension and wasn't really hurting anyone, I just snapped and went on a bit of a rant and people cooled me down anyway. Of course that guy Fighteer perma-banned me and hid my posts, I guess so I looked like a troll even though I'm not.
If they're just story ideas you posted in various places, I honestly don't think anyone's going to go trawling through them just to find ideas to steal from. Story ideas are, pardon my candor, cheaper than a dime a dozen on the internet.
If it's actual whole essays, fanfics, etc. that you've written, and you know where you posted them, I guess we could help save the text and copy it for you.
(Also the troll post modding feature is kinda stupid, honestly.)
Technically, a couple of people in here still have TVT accounts, in practice I'd ask first if there's anyone whom the mods will regard as worthy of being listened to. Meaning, I can forward your plea if there's no other option, 'cause I very much doubt I can convince anyone.
If I'm not mistaken, back in the day people also used to set up an account from another IP, then send a plea this way.
Fast Eddie is gone, and P5 is ancient history by internet standards, however.
As for old accounts, I heard that MellonCollie's account was somehow taken over by someone else after a period of inactivity, but that's just hearsay on my part.
I tried that, didn't work
Well, I'm not banned from the site, my account is just banned from editing and the forums. Honestly, I feel like I got banned for no reason, I read reasons for a permanent ban and didn't fall under any of the reasons that permit a permanent ban. I didn't vandalize anything, didn't make evasion accounts, only got one suspension prior, and didn't attack or defame the site or other tropers, why such a drastic move, and why cover up my posts to make it look like I was trolling even though I wasn't?
Still slightly amazed that I never got banned for "trolling" or anything else as a result of my famed "gigantposts" -- i.e. posts where I'd reply to quote after quote individually, sometimes totalling 10 or 20 quotes spanning multiple pages worth of forum posts. Fast Eddie once characterized such posts as "trolling" but I guess I got lucky (or maybe I was conciliatory or civil enough?) to have avoided mod action for that style of posting.
It was Fighteer, he just permabanned me, no discussions, no negotiations, didn't even tell me why, decided to hide my posts. The way he "announced" my permanent ban to everyone made everyone else think that I had killed myself.