Hello,

I was recently banned from #computerhope for 'flaming' as it was put. This was a ban that I deserved, and I have now served.

Upon messaging Lostcoast to check that I could safely return without being accused of ban-evasion, I was informed that I wasn't allowed to use IRC Cloud to connect.

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Private messages between myself and Lostcoast
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Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
16:43:33 <Immental1200> Hi
16:43:39 <Immental1200> Am I not due to be unbanned?
16:43:41 <Immental1200> Thanks.
16:47:57 <lostcoast> yes but return without irccloud
16:48:13 <Immental1200> Why am I not allowed IRCCloud?
16:51:45 <Immental1200> There's currently 3 people in #computerhope using IRCCloud.
16:54:00 <lostcoast> back in a few hours
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Friday, September 27th, 2013
21:21:09 <Immental1200> Hello lostcoast. Can we continue our discussion please?
21:24:07 <lostcoast> I'll end it now...you use a service to flame the channel then you lose that right.
21:25:23 <Immental1200> Surely, the service I used which gave an unchangeable hostmask without me creation a new account, which goes against IRC Cloud's terms, is better than my home ISP which has an IP that changes every 24-48 hours?
21:25:27 <Immental1200> I at least stay banned then.
21:25:38 <Immental1200> creating*
21:26:05 <Immental1200> Not to mention the fact that I'd rather use this than any other client, which means if I'm not at home, I'm still banned.
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I've not received any message since, and I feel that his argument of disallowing me access to a service such as IRC Cloud because I was banned on it once is ridiculous. As I stated in the private messages, it's actually more pain for me to change my IRC Cloud hostmask than it is to pull up another client and connect with my ISP IP, thus bypassing any bans in place anyway!

I've seen it mentioned before that users of IRC Cloud aren't welcome in the channel, despite this no action has ever been taken against other users that I can see.

The user 'BattleCam' is running off IRC Cloud, and right now there are two users in the channel connected via IRC Cloud.

So, I ask you Lostcoast - what are you doing? I feel as if this is prejudice.

I'm sure there will be other people who agree with me that the IRC channel has gone 'downhill' lately, and that the ban rate has increased, as well as the new 'rules' that are being enforced, yet only in some situations and are undocumented.

When I first started using the chat, it wasn't like this, users were treated relatively equally and it was simple, be banned, leave for the time period, return and nothing more was said. My IRC Cloud hostmask is still banned.