Like what you see from the title, digitalpoint banned me for something i should not be banned for. Here’s the email i received from them last night. See the below screenshot and judge, should i get banned? The related thread is at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8924400#post8924400
Quality of digitalpoint is dropping over the years
I have been a very supportive member of digitalpoint since 2 years back, but now, it’s regretful to see the forum being monopolized by “crap” moderators ( only some ). If they don’t like you, they ban you, if you snatch their business, they ban you. This is how they play. Well, i don’t know which moderator banned me, but obviously, there’s something wrong with the moderator because i do not deserved it.
Well, i think shaun hogan have to do something about the forum, if not the forum that he established with so much effort will go to waste.
Frankly speaking, my online income stream have been crippled with this unexpected ban because most of my online income comes from the services i offers in digitalpoint. But however, here’s one lesson i learn. Like what adam khoo said, always have multiple stream of income, don’t put all eggs in one basket.
OK, now i experienced it, i finally know the true meaning behind it. I will get over this really fast. One ban won’t destroy me! Watch out!
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Well I just found out I got banned too. The reason was post bumping. Really crazy man as all I did was thank one of my buyers.
I got banned once for reply to a post by saying “Pm me”
@Otoo, David : Well, they banned me permanently ie,gave me 10 infractions points that don’t expires..lol
Hi,
I just got banned too for replying to a moderator who was extremely rude herself. I didn’t know that 10 infraction points mean that you get permanently banned. When I log in it tells me that it would get lifted on Sept 28th but the mail does say 10 infraction points, does that mean that I can’t ever go back to DP?
Oh I forgot to add, they did not even give me a reason for banning and the thread that they send me, i can’t access anyways.
This is what I received. Such trash just can’t believe it.
Dear neena123,
You have received an infraction at Digital Point Forums.
Reason: 7-Day Buy/Sell/Trade Ban
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This infraction is worth 10 point(s) and may result in restricted access until it expires. Serious infractions will never expire.
Original Post:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=9239743#post9239743
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Hi,
Kindly check your PM.
Thanks
—End Quote—
All the best,
Digital Point Forums
@Neena – i am sorry to hear that this happen to you too.. their management seems to be #@#@
Yeah their management really sucks and the worst part is most people are scared to stand up to crap because they don’t want to be banned. Somebody should hack DP and delete all mod accounts, will serve them right.
Derek, I remember that I have chated with you several months ago via DP PM.
My ID has been banned permanent as well just a while ago. this made all my firends on DP and PM history are gone. A part of mods of DP are real stupid.
I google dp banned to find your this page. lol.
neena:
“Yeah their management really sucks and the worst part is most people are scared to stand up to crap because they don’t want to be banned. Somebody should hack DP and delete all mod accounts, will serve them right.”
yea, I’m 200% agree with u. a lot of scared guys on DP, their ID is fine. but me, do nothing bad on DP, banned permanent.
Digital point sucks they also banned me no reason at all 7 day ban while in the middle of a sale I think I may have showed a mod trying to scam members on digitalpoint lol that’s ok I’m a 81310518 from way back bye bye dp have fun :-p
SCAM SCAM SCAM DIGITALPOINT IS FULLY OF SCAMMERS DO NOT TRUST!
EVEN SHAWN HOGAN HAS BEEN TO COURT FOR SCAMMING JUST GOOGLE IT YOU’LL SEE
I got banned for 7 days today. I don’t know the reason. It is paintfull because the banned me in the middle of negotiation of my business
These ridiculous bans are a big part of why so many of us have left DP and gone to NetBuilders.org.
@ Will Spencer – agreed completely.
We’ve trying to build a site with all the members who have been banned from Digital Point unfairly to join along with the rest – lightly moderated for best overall experience.
I’m contacting Derek about his support on this.
Am I banned because im cant login??
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You have entered an invalid username or password. Please press the back button, enter the correct details and try again. Don’t forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Click here!
You have used 2 out of 5 login attempts. After all 5 have been used, you will be unable to login for 15 minutes.
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That error show when im trying to login to dp.
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And when I try to recover my pass tru mail…. it say my mail is not valid..
@myspace Tweaks: You are not banned, i supposed your password is wrong. If you are banned, you will get a message says”Banned”
I think in that forum you have bumped it…just check your email for info
Way to easy to get banned
Any other sites around like digitalpoint?
@PsykologÅrhus: yea, i would recommend netbuilders, i get a couple of nice deals there..
Get used to it. This is digitalpoint to a tee. Someone should replace them as a forum. They ban EVERYONE – they banned me because my mentally ill brother in law used his account at my house – on a totally different computer… go figure!
I’m presently bookmarking every moderators blog and websites.I say one hits the lot of them by submitting all of their websites to every porn site imaginable online in one mass concerted effort.
I’m on my third account at DigitalPoint, thousands of posts to my name, I always pride myself on clean language, trying to be as helpful to all other members as possible, yet again, I’ve got some moderator stalking my posts and handing out infractions for the most ridiculously silly reasons.
I well understand the rules at DP and purposefully never post messages such as ‘pm me’ etc, all of my posts are informative and high quality, I pride myself on this point.
Yet, along comes a grumpy mod, with nothing better to do with their time as usual, handing out infraction points for the most silly of reasons, out of all proportion to any amount of reasonableness. It’s absolutely stupid.
They allow scammers galore yet punish the very people trying to up the quality of the place as if they have nothing better to do all day long, than to sit behind their monitors looking for every reason to fault and pick at every poster under the sun, even if those posters have thousands of posts to their name.
It would be good one of these days, to get a moderator account and password and instantly ban the bloody moderators there en masses, see how they like it!
As it is, I’m going to start soon submitting some of their sites very soon to a wide range of porn sites, let’s see how they like it being hurt in THEIR pockets.
What comes around goes around.
They collectively need to grow up!
I just got banned for absolutely no reason. I even went to the site and searched my name and clicked on view all posts. There is not a single offensive or infraction worthy post on there. My ban goes away in a week, but this is ridiculous. Don’t know what to do, but I am with you brother in exposing the faults of these moderators.
Well i got banned for month telling as affiliate program abuse but i have just posted
a thread for connecting indian members in india and asked them their real name and location, i have got 28 replies within 5 hours but one mod banned me as affiliate program abuse…
So i am now moving to v7n,vuju and warrior forum…
I also got banned! I’m totally new to IM and was looking for affiliates for The100CalorieDiet.com. I really don’t know why they banned me. I just said I needed help with selling my eBook. I had just gone live and really needed some help. I think the forum is for small minded players. Can anyone suggest a forum for me?
they also banned me for “bumping my thread” . All I did was replying a little slow to my customers, so that the thread stays up. I have a great rep, so was very shocked. THEY DON’T BAN SCAMMERS, which deserve it, THEY TAKE IT on simple honest members who make some small mistakes. Got a 7 day ban. Hope it will get lifted. Watch out those who have threads opened. Only write quality information posts . NO “thank you , etc” , etc messages. You will get banned.
@anonym222, i guess dp owner need to come back to save the forum!
I got a 8 day ban for standing up to a scammer! Wow this forum is pathetic, everyone spams and there are basically little to none informative posts, I feel everyone replies with irrelevant information. Oh well thats what you get, crap moderators = crap members.
Hi, Is it I been banned permanently if the message display as below? eventhough i don’t make any duplicate account.
“You have been banned for the following reason:
duplicate account
Date the ban will be lifted: Never”
hi sees: Yes, that is a permanent ban.You can try your luck and email one of the moderators, maybe they can review on your situation.
I’ve been a member of DP for a few years now, and I am just getting tired of it. I have never been banned, but have received infractions. My last one was for five points for “Spamming”. I didn’t spam anyone, and the day I got it, I was out of town, and hadn’t even logged in. To top it off, the mod included a link to where I made the infraction and it didn’t even work. Talk about crap infractions. Content on DP is also pretty dismal lately. Simply filled with “did page rank change today” threads, WTS threads, and earn$$$ junk.
I just got banned a gain 3rd time in 2 month.
I am not sure why they keep doing this, I really hate DP and i would not use them but i do make money from this site, however they really need to clean up there act, it would be nice if everyone boycot them and just used sitepoint
i am already banned but DP not lift my account
“You have been banned due to infractions.
Date the ban will be lifted: Jul 19th 2009, 7:45 pm” Jul 19th 7:45 ? but not lifted my account.
i think “NEVER USE OR GO ON DP. USE OTHER FORUM BECAUSE DP MODS ARE MAD!(not all)”
I have been on DP for about two month without any problems, then today I get three in one day. One was for saying “thank you for your post” another was saying “try ebay” and that comment i got two!!
Well in my opinoin dp is not that great to be a trade point. I’m predicting that if the mass banning continues some other forum will gain more popularity or so to speak “You should start a forum like DP now!!”
i too was just recently got banned from DP. I feel like it’s unfair but somehow I’m relieved, I guess that was a sign because there’s an offer to me to become a fulltime wordpress peron for a company
Its been 2 years at DP now,but never been banned yet,though recieved many infarctions. Recently got FIVE INFARCTINS on same day worth one point each,lasting for 3 months !! THAT TOO ON MY BIRTHDAY. lol
Got banned today too…they are full of crap! The minute I landed a semi-decent gig off there is when they decide to ban me for “useless posts”.
hey being banned from dp isn’t all bad news guys there is loads of forums just like dp
me tooo banned, i just reply a post “” please send me your site URl “”, thats all. i dont think there is any problem in this, why the banned me………
DP did not found a way to get things sorted out and so they thought banning is the right way to ask people to read the rules. There are better ways of doing this.
Im thinking of sharing my experience too. Right after when I read their email for me I totally got depressed! I never thought that I will be banned there, The reason is because I said “PM me the link” its just a part of my post!
I was like: I dont deserve that!” They banned me but those bad guys who talks about nasty stuffs are still on their forum. I think its just unfair! I was kinda thinking of seeing a anti-digitalpoint forum after that but uh-well I landed on your page. Im thinking of quitting (not making another account) but I want to work for the forums on the buy and sell. Guys any other forum where I can find forum poster jobs?
hi chien, sorry to hear abt your ban, you can try http://www.netbuilders.org or http://www.webmaster-talk.com/, they are pretty good webmaster forums.
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The original poster seems to be commiting fraud.. Because they are saying you get 74 backlinks. I don’t think it should be a 10 point infraction..
But you also should have earned infractions for “PM sent” as you mentioned in there. The only infractions I have earned are called 1 pointers, and I have earned 10 (but they changed one to a 0 pointer).. So if I get 1 point I am banned. If I do I will be back to complain… But, seriously.. You NEED to PM a mod… And discuss it..
Thanks,
Can’t tell you who I am, don’t want to get banned from DP!
Hey,
I AM NOW BANNED FROM DIGITALPOINT…
WHAT IS UP WITH THEM???
I HATE THE FORUM SITE!
Now, I am banned…
I started http:///www.dpbanned.cz.cc to send a message!
I am now banned from this sh*tty forum.
Why? They didn’t tell me. Date the ban will be lifted: Apr 9th 2010, 7:18 am
According to one of the members, I’m not allowed to give an iTrader unless my account is more than 14 days old. But why would they ban anyone because of this? The motherf*cker moderator should have sent me a pm about it.
Digitalpoint sucks.