Some fairly petulant and petty people by the sound of it.
Also totally anonymous, which is an issue.
2 years
Just got back in after day 21 of my 5 day ban. Posted that I was back after 21 days of my 5 day ban having never been told what rule I broke... and I was banned again for a week. Or maybe longer.
2 years
Jasonsgroovemachine:
The Feabie Admins mishandled a situation, no surprise there, and they've been banning anyone that's been disagreeing with them. Old accounts, new ones, whatever. I'm on day 15 of a 5 day ban myself.
They aren't responding to emails, Grokio the parent company isn't either.
Quiver:
This, exactly this. I likewise am deep into a ban that was only supposed to be a few days and likewise am not hearing back from my emails, so I guess it’s nice to know it’s not just me. You wouldn’t happen to know of anywhere on the internet where the wave of folks like you and me are gathering (besides here) would you? I tried looking for the discord server they were talking about before I got booted but no luck.
I'm afraid I don't. I didn't even know there was a discord. I know there's a Twitter account for people that got banned to post to, but Feabie/Grokio pay even less attention to their Twitter than they do anything else.
2 years
Morningglory:
I saw some posts from those that got banned posting the business address of Grokio or something. Not exactly doxxing since it’s public record.
If that's the case, that's probably the closest thing to doxxing you can do with Grokio. They don't want you to contact them for anything.
2 years
Jasonsgroovemachine:
It didn't used to be this bad.
Reflection Of Perfection:
Yeah it was.
I got permabanned 5 years ago and the place was a cesspool even then.
I bet half the troublemakers from back then are still there now.
I've been on and off of there since it opened, and while it had been bad... This is a new level of bad.
2 years
I think they think they are.
2 years
I have no idea where thats coming from. All I can guess is that there's an argument being made that the Admins should be anonymous.
2 years
It didn't used to be this bad.
2 years
As I understand the situation...
A user called someone (Let's say Dave) else a name that other people said was racist.
The user (Call em Josh) that called said person that name wasn't aware of it, apologized and removed the post. The person they called the name accepted the apology, said no big deal, life was good again.
But someone reported the post Josh made and Josh was banned. So the user base started coming to Josh's defense because Josh didn't know, and Dave wasn't upset, and the post was gone anyway.
Feabie Admins kept the ban in place and started banning people that were trying to support Josh.
After like a week they put out a statement blaming everything on Josh and a solving themselves of any responsibility for their actions.
I can't speak for why other people have been banned, but I was banned for called bullshit.
I do know that they've tried to say there were threats of doxxing and all that, but I don't buy that one bit.
2 years
The Feabie Admins mishandled a situation, no surprise there, and they've been banning anyone that's been disagreeing with them. Old accounts, new ones, whatever. I'm on day 15 of a 5 day ban myself.
They aren't responding to emails, Grokio the parent company isn't either.
They've shut down registration to keep old members from coming back. They are claiming that there have been dozxing threats to the members and Admins.
So pretty standard behavior for feabie Admins. Come into a mostly diffused situation, make it much worse, blame the people that did it, ban anyone that disagrees.
2 years
