Moosedrool
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Maybe the problem is not everyone else.
Ever thought about that?
Ever thought about that?
I keep getting banned
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biometrics
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Gerd unfortunately burnt bridges bad mouthing SA on his way out. Piece of shit imo.I have spent an obscene amount of time working out that place. I've been there from the very beginning, in 2003. I shall share what I know about that place here for the benefit of others. I have had over 10 user accounts on that forum, some of which they have deleted without trace
First of all, you need to know and accept that Rudolph Muller is a cocksucker! He is a fucking crook. He has been devious from the start. He has no integrity and never has had any. Right from the start it has been that way. I joined the forum in 2003, gave it a miss for a year because I forgot about it and began taking part in 2004.
Now, onto the interesting bits
Phase One - Early
I started interacting there in 2004, by 2005 I was banned for the first time. Because I have ASD, I don't mix well with humans on that forum. I am the problem and there's nothing I can do about it. Became unpopular because I was being asked by some people on that site (Debbie Love, Douglas Simoes, David Viaene) to help the cause to go against Telkom and share secrets about Telkom and I was not happy to do that (because I did work for Telkom - had to, they paid for my studies because my parents were too busy shoving money up my brother's arse to care about me). Note that many of the current moderators were already moderators at this stage. For example (ic, TheLibrarian, Jan, Dominic, TheRodent etc...).
Phase Two- Sellout
During 2009 - 2011 Rudolph allowed two things. He allowed Telkom to advertise, and then he allowed Jannie van Zyl from Vodacom, to become active on the forum. Jannie was given mod powers and that's when the censorship began. This didn't sit well with Douglas or Debbie. This is the period when he became an arsehole and began to ban people for either criticizing Vodacom, or him or Jannie. It was then revealed that the site was being sponsored by Vodacom. My third or fourth account- can't remember, got banned for criticizing Vodacom. At one point during these years a bit of controversy about banning people raised questions at Vodacom. Jannie Van Zyl was likely behind this because I seem to recall that dude emailing me aswell to try and threaten me. Rudolph Muller had me traced, and I received a phone call at work from him, where I was offered a choice- either toe the line and be unbanned, or become persona non grata forever. I declined, and some of us started a competing forum together known as bblounge. December 2011 Rudolph had us all served with a cease-and-desist from his lawyer friend Reinhardt Buys.
Phase Three - We love Multichoice
From around 2013-2015, a lot of advertisers were brought on board, but yes, MultiChoice was the big one. Many of my later user accounts were banned because I mocked DSTV/Multichoice articles or posted critique about MultiChoice's crap. During 2014 I had lost my job and was unemployed so didn't spent a whole lot of time there as I had no internet.
Phase Four - Kevin Lancaster aka Kevin Spamcaster
Now this journalist... oh boy, pure Gen Z special snowflake. But this guy paved the way for the Guest journalist spam of today
I had great pride (as did many others) pointing out his flawed journalism and outright lies. And I was not alone. Along with me was the then CTO of BidorBuy (Gerd Naschenweng). We knew we couldn't go toe to toe with ole Spamcaster on the forum, so we would comment on Disqus instead.
In 2017, along with the change in logo, the rules on Disqus changed, and along with that came the Disqus bans and them putting up the warning on Disqus. I spent much of 2017 creating accounts to evade the bans but in the end it proved to be too much effort. But yes, I hold the distinction of driving ole Kevin into obscurity. I was told that me and Gerd made him suffer a breakdown of some sort. Note that during this time however, he was named the MD of the company. By then Mybroadband was formed as a media company and that's what it is today. A news outlet, nothing more.
In 2017 they banned Gerd, and he spoke of it in his website here:
MyBroadband banned me because I reported them to ISPA –...
MyBroadband banned me from their site after the I reported them to ISPA for various code-of-conduct violations. MyBroadband censored my legitimate Afrihost complaint, deleted my posts, removed my access and finally banned me once I exercised my consumer rights.www.naschenweng.info
In those days I had a dedicated Weebly site set up where I would ridicule MyBroadband and Kevin, in the end I believe it was justified as it got rid of him and his crappy spam. My site got a lot of traffic, but I decided to shut it down towards the end of 2017, because the financial costs and also the legal threats, were taking their toll.
MyBroadband.co.za censors consumer activism about Afrihost SMS- &...
After reporting Afrihost SMS & email spam on the Mybroadband Afrihost support forum, all my posts were deleted and my access was removed.
Phase Five - Life goes on
During 2018 I created a new account, or two XD, and in general I'd toned down my activities there because work got busier and life took a different turn. I had moved to Cape Town and a lot of my anger about journalistic lies had dissipated. Just before lockdown I was banned again. Because I simply pointed out that the journalists were moved into a Staff category and that category could not be put on ignore.
Since then I've not really bothered to be there, because nowadays, every dreck of society has an account there and its tiring to have to read the spew of some very dumb people. Also, trolling does get old.
But in summary, the site, the business, and the whole shebang, is as corrupt as the ruling party is. A dirty business built on selling out to the cellphone cartels and living off smart adverts and gutter press.
Yip. That's why I don't have contact with him anymore.
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Curious what some of your banned user names were, might recall. Ol’ @LD50 might hold the record.
I tried to remember them.. alas I am getting old. The same username I use here was banned before I had a newer account ArtyLoop. I actually forgot about the previous one. There was a transition of forum software and that's when things got interesting.
Some accounts I used to troll them outright for the lulz I do remember.. spanner_koos and one other.. wish I could remember honestly.
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Artyloop rings a bell but my memory of there is getting fuzzy too, not even sure what the various fusses were about anymore. The DJ… one was one of those I do recall.
Yeah... DJ aka Shaun Kaplan. Don't remember what his issue was. Haven't spoken to him since that ISP business of his folded.
Oh the irony...
XtremeTTH – An interview with Crystal Web CEO Shaun Kaplan
MyBroadband interviews Crystal Web CEO Shaun Kaplan about the company’s XtremeTTH product.
mybroadband.co.za
So- they will ban you but when you get famous, then they will interview you no problem as long as it generates clicks.
Yeah for you it's different.
For me its something else. I like trolling there when I get the chance (and if my attempts at creating an account does succeed which presently its not). There's some really dumb people there (and I could argue the owner of the site is also similarly afflicted) but, it's like a car crash, you can't resist looking. Taking the piss out of the idiots on that forum is really fun.
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Only thing still fun is pestering the religious nut jobs, nothing of value there any more
I got tired of that lot, the flat earthers are also gone so nothing else.
I do find those that go crazy about Elon Musk to be ripe targets but alas, getting an account there is proving difficult.
biometrics
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With the trouble in Israel/Palestine I bet there is a lively thread going. Which reminds me what happened to @Spizz?
When I browsed there the other day I might be mistaken but they've now resorted to banning some people from the Israel/Palenstine sections. I don't have a clue WTF actually, but yes it's a thing, seems the forum owner has picked a side. Not a surprise really, back in the day he picked other sides too.
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With the previous war in 2014 rpm pm’ed me to take a week timeout from that thread, apparently I upset some people claiming the Iron Dome is kind of shitty and American made.
Yup, he chooses sides and when crybabies go crying to him, he uses his favourite tool, the banhammer.
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Yeah the flat earthers where great, but yeah I stay away from.thw Elmo crowed you can't argue with stupid
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I have not set foot in that thread and will never.
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It’s like any super polarising topic, there can be no winner.
Both sides are cunts.
Nicholas
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Whoah! Oversensitive much?!