Re: My ban on forum.kitz.co.uk is unfair by Konrado5I'm taking the unusual step to re-open this thread after it has come to my knowledge that Konrado5 is making numerous posts elsewhere about his perceived unfair treatment on these forums.
For the record, the amount of moderation required for Konrado been extremely time consuming. We have tried our best to make allowances for his difficulties, but there comes a point when his behaviour is problematic for other members of this forum.
We have been more than fair towards Konrado, yet he has not been fair or considerate towards our other members. Over the past 5 years, he has been demanding and insistent that people answer his posts. He has disrupted other members threads and taken then off topic by talking about his hlogs. Despite being asked not to Konrado continued to put pressure on certain people. If they don't respond he would tag, or PM them.. or even email them to reply. His posts have become exceedingly repetitive going round in circles over the same issue. He has also been rude to other members by putting pressure on them to write diagnostic tools that work with his modem.
It was an explicit condition of Konrado's return after his last ban that he must not call out or put pressure on other members to answer his questions. His quest for knowledge often involved finding a technical journal then expect one of the members here to interpret how they think it would apply to his line.
Konrado claims that he has stopped his behaviour and that b*cat was interested which is why he kept tagging him. However, what he fails to recognise is that for 5 years it has repeatedly been requested of him not to and that within a few weeks he will relapse back in to unacceptable behaviour. See
here for just how long this has been going on.
His final ban was a cumulation of events that happened over the course of a few days.
- Despite being told not to - twice Konrado tagged b*cat within a couple of days for which I had to step in.
- Konrado5 caused considerable admin time by twice posting links to pirate sites even though it is against forum rules and he had been asked not to. The link was removed by admin 11/07/2018 but he re-added it on 26/07/2018 showing blatant disrespect of rules. [Ref. 1]
- 26/07/2018 - Final warning issued to Konrado5 [Ref. 2]
- 02/08/2018 - B*cat eventually responded to one of Konrado5's posts closing his own post with the sentence "I have nothing else to say on this subject. Please do not bring it up again." [Ref. 3]
- Because history has shown, even when told "I don't know" or "nothing further to add" - he will still harass others for more info, so I locked the thread to draw it to a close to avoid further repetition
- 02/08/2018 09:13 pm - Konrado5 then opened another thread complaining that it was unfair to lock threads. He failed to heed other members advising him to cease his behaviour & continued to push until that thread was also locked at 10:36 pm. [Ref. 4]
- 02/08/2018 10:39 pm - Within 5 minutes Konrado5 opened yet another thread saying he had "a right to write his ideas on the forum." This was the final straw. [Ref. 5]
Regardless of what Konrado thinks, this is my forum, I pay the server costs... and I have other members whom I have to consider too. The rules are there to protect all members. Konrado's behaviour towards others was not just unfair, but totally unacceptable. We are not here to be Konrado5's unpaid research assistants and he has been given ample opportunities to mend his ways.
Many times it has been suggested Konrado start his own blog about his hlogs / enters further education rather than expect others to spoon feed him / purchases the technical equipment such as a JDSU which would be able to run the diagnostics for him.
I doubt any other forum would have been as tolerant of Konrado's behaviour as what we have been. He has already been banned on numerous other forums globally for far less than here.
Konrado5 is now on some form of vendetta posting on other broadband forums. Despite not even living in the UK, he even went to the extraordinary extent of joining my own (UK) ISP's member forum to complain about how he had been treated by me.
The reasons for his ban was clearly laid out and I fail to see how we could have been any fairer
here. I am continuing to receive emails (6 to date) from him. I have responded twice that the matter is not up for debate or reconsideration. The rest are being ignored.
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TLDR; version.We have been more than fair & considerate towards the OP.
OP's behaviour to other forum members was unfair. His behaviour was unreasonable. He had numerous warnings. He broke forum rules. He got banned.
[Moderator edit to amend typo in dates 2019 > 2018 & clarify 'he' = Konrado.]