ObesityOfTheOld was not a great name, but everything after that shouldn’t have happened. I didn’t know an OK was given to continue the account, and suspect a lack of moderator communication was at play here. I’m sorry for what I’ve said below.
People disagree (should’ve seen this coming honestly), the reason is that the first account, ObesityOfTheOld, was removed pretty fairly (not that great of a username, might’ve been done with good intentions? but also not really explained anywhere) PhysicsFanaticMan being banned for ban evading is reasonable. Banning ThatPhysicsForumer for ban evading is also reasonable, and accidentally redirecting to PhysicsFanaticMan is not a crime. Not sure why people feel the need to evade bans they feel unjust, that won’t help and you can’t blame the ST for taking action there.
There are a lot of reasons to be unhappy about the Scratch Team. This isn't one of them.
My 3rd account, thatphysicsforumer, just got banned for “ban evading” and that I should log in to “physicsfanaticman” to learn more, when that account is deleted and that ban reason was the one mentioned below (the vague one of “your account is banned for breaking the community guidelines when I haven’t broke any) and that I had already got a contact-us response saying I could continue with that account.
Why do I deserve to be treated like this?
My first account, @obesityoftheold, got blocked for an “inappropriate username” (it’s because obesity is a problem amongst old people in the Netherlands) and now my 2nd account, PhysicsFanaticMan, got blocked for the following:
Your Scratch account has been blocked for continuing to break our Community Guidelines.
When I know I never broke any guidelines and they didn’t provide me with any comments that broke the guidelines?
After all my hard work on the forums with my posts the last week, this is how the Scratch Team treats me.
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i honestly agree that you can’t complain about getting banned for ban evasion. you should just appeal your original ban, but expecting the Scratch Team to just allow any banned user to create a new account without consequence is unreasonable.
also, i can definitely see how that username was considered kind of suspicious (creating usernames with names that sound potentially rule-breaking without extra clarification isn't advisable)
Yeah, exactly. They could’ve sent clarification via the contact forum and figure something out, ban evading is not the right choice.
Are you joking? They already got the green light from contact us! And what, do you expect obesityoftheold to change their name to “obesityisaprobleminnetherlands”? Their original name isn’t innapropriate, obese just describes someone’s weight.
i didn’t see the part about the contact-us response, but in that case they shouldn’t have been banned. however, i think the ambiguity of the username “obesityoftheold” isn’t completely unfounded. however, i still think that the Scratch Team giving a green light and reversing their decision is wrong.
Ok, it was a bit ambiguous, but I don’t think it’s that innapropriate - like they said, obese just describes someone’s size. Sorry if I seemed like I was yelling at you, I was just shocked at how people think the ST is right in this situation
I didn’t have that important peace of the puzzle - you were totally right about “yelling” there.