This post is a complaint of the banning of Nefarious, aka Ferenan, aka Greg.
For those who don't know, his IP was banned from EOFF, preventing him from ever reregistering.
He was banned because he broke a recently made rule. That is if you ask to be banned, it's permenant. You can't reregister, or take this ban back. He wasn't told he could never come back. He just wanted to get rid of his past and start fresh.
But he was banned. No questions asked, and no warnings made. Just IP banned.
Greg asked to be banned on about October 25th. He made his second account November 1st. This rule that he broke came out just a few days ago, after both his registering a new account, and his asking to be banned. It's also come to my attention that there's been exceptions to these rules. People taking back their request to be banned and coming back, some just a couple days ago. Also, TK was allowed to keep his new account.
This rule isn't anywhere in the FAQ or anything.
So Greg got banned for a rule he didn't know existed, and couldn't have known about, since it didn't exist when he asked to be banned? Interesting.
I don't think this is very right.
Note: Greg said he doesn't want to be unbanned. I just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention. I think it's a rule that shouldn't be in effect. And that you should post rules, especially ones that get you IP banned, no warnings made. And that you shouldn't ban someone for a rule made AFTER the action that would break it.