sandor201Yep, so apparently my Sandor00 account has been banned. Even though I said I was going to be leaving, and even though I didn't insult anyone, threaten anyone or do anything illegal, my account was banned by Mark. Why? Probably because I dared to disagree with his final ruling on my matter.
I won't bother bringing up my past incidents with wordpress, since you probably know them. Basically a troll who was stalking me on Wikipedia posted my personal information on a WordPress blog's comments. The first time I asked for them to be removed, Mark wrote back to me and told me that the comments would be removed. Now that they're back, I asked for them to be removed but apparently whatever prompted them to delete them in the past no longer stood. I never got an answer as to why this changed; when I asked Mark on IRC, he refused to answer and just said "This conversation is closed".
On the forums, he wrote about me in what was either at best misinformation and at worse a flat-out lie. For starters, he insinuated that I was someone of high power on Wikipedia and that I was trying to bully WordPress and exert my power. Which couldn't be farther from the truth. I have absolutely no real power on Wikipedia. I am one of many registered users, and my "powers" don't go any farther than editing and creating articles, and uploading images. But I'm not an administrator and nor do I have any administrative abilities.So I don't know where Mark's getting this stuff about there being a misbalance of power.
Then I discovered that he had changed my posts so that I could only see them--apparently so I would still write my posts without knowing anything was wrong, while no one else would be able to read them. So I registered another account to point this out and to repost my invisible messages and he in response banned *both* accounts with no explanation. Now I know my posts annoyed a lot of people, but at the very least, I think you should agree that I didn't do anything harmful. Even though I was extremely frustrated, I never insulted anyone, I never threatened anyone, I didn't do anything that would have violated the TOS. Nothing that warranted a ban.
So for all of WordPress' s talk about freedom of speech and that they wouldn't censor anyone unless it was illegal--well, apparently I'm the exception to the rule. Because I disagreed with Mark's handling of the matter, my posts were censored. And because I pointed out that my posts were censored, I was banned.
