Why do users get BANNED?

[BlueLieu]

There are obvious reasons to be banned, most are illustrated in the hub's rules posted on log in or by typing "+rules". But every so often despite following the rules, a user gets BANNED from a hub. Sometimes this is a tempban and will expire after a period of time, other times it's a permban which disallows your IP from connecting to the hub ever again (unless the log is cleared by an OP).

This thread is to discuss the unobvious reasons to get a temp/permban. So don't bother mentioning or asking about:

fake share
flaming
not meeting slot/share/bandwith minimums
sharing content not deemed appropriate by the hub owners

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Personally I have gotten a tempban in the past because I downloaded a .wav file and it was considered a fake share on another hub. I got tempbanned over and over until I hit a hub that responded with WHY I was tempbanned.

Another reason I suspect I have run into this is because I reboot/defrag/play Quake and hafta shut down DC++. I used to send a PM to all users downloading from me, but after doing this everytime for 2 months I had yet to get the same type of PM from someone disconnecting whilst I was downloading a file from them. So I stopped. I just got a tempban from SWE-[BBB]MAXMUS[BBB] and I think this is why.

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Anyone have insight into disconnecting w/o a PM to the users or additonal reason why one would get a ban?

[notbob]

most cases it's for good reason (as you describe)

occasionally it's overactive bots, sometimes the user sent an angry pm to an op, flaming or namecalling on pms isn't obvious to everyone on the hub

there are also the fake share programs, some that have to be manually checked, which takes time (hence the delay in banning)

then there are the idiotic country in brackets hubs, which ban you for not conforming to their idiotic naming conventions

tempbans can happen if you fail to connect to the hub too many times--the hub program will automatically give ypu a 4 minute tempban if it sees your ip several times in one minute

i think in your case it was bot trouble--if you have ++ set for "ignore offline users"in settings/advanced, you won't get the reason for your ban, because your dc++ is not getting it