Hi, I'm a new user writing from my second account as my first got banned.
I just wanted to start easy by posting a joke, something that wasn't allowed here or? I understand you get a lot of junk, but think this could be handled a bit more graceful to newcomers.
Anyhow, the process of appealing this ban isn't easy to say the least. To be able to contact someone here you need an account, and with a IP ban and blocked account, that's kinda hard. Took a few VPNs and e-mail relays to get here... So can I please have my account back?
Could you please send me a PM with the previous account name and associated email address so I can look into the matter.
Typically, users are banned only if they demonstrate particularly aggressive and inappropriate behaviors that violate our forum guidelines, or if they are spammers. But I'll have to look into this particular situation to determine what happened to your account.
I banned you, we have a lot of fun with spammers (which got worse with the advent of ai making them appear to be more on topic).
Now please take a step back and put yourself in the moderators' shoes:
you have a brandnew account, no reading time
first post is off-topic/ trying to be funny, without any relation to OpenWrt
with a 'funny' username
So we have a user who hates to register, but does so, just to write an off-topic joke. Don't you think that raises (more than) a few alarm bells?
No one would have blinked an eye, if you had prior exposure to the forum or if there had been any on-topic follow-up. The problem here is the combination of a brandnew account, off-topic content (but clickbait and slightly aggressive topic title) and the chosen nickname. This raises the question, if you hate to register an account so much, why did you go through with it for that first post, first impressions matter. None of this would have been an issue on its own, but in combination that is indicative of a problem.
I flagged your initial post for staff to look at for the same reasoning as @slh explained to you. Everybody likes a good laugh but your post was clearly questionable.
