Cannot access chat anymore

Hi there,
sorry to bother. I cannot access the chat anymore and became 'pink' - if this has anything to do with my last forum-post which has been deleted, a note would be nice. Otherwise your kind help is much appreciated.

thank you
netcobold

P.S. as I can still post in forum I don't think it's a ban, did log out and in couple of times with no change, if I click on the ET chat link - from the quick links bar or the one below the featured chat window - I am always bouncing back to my account page? Does anyone has an idea?

thx for your help

wow, can't believe it. Banned? Who? What for? I never said a word there, "listening" silently sometimes. Mostly I have the chat open in a tab and have a peek once in awhile. Strange things are going on at this site.......

Anyway, thank you Deamastad

thanks for your thoughts on the issue, interesting. As I understand it, there is a difference between 'banned' and 'kicked' - at least it used to be in my times . You can log in again after you got kicked out form chat and would have to be kicked out again and again because you always can come back; usually there wouldn't be a record of it unless there is a monitoring protocol.

A ban, on the other hand, doesn't allow you to log back in and there would be a record on your account. While the latter was what happend, question comes to mind 'who has the power to ban' and could this be identified by the record? (N.B. I don't wanna know, but good for the site administrators) And why can someone be banned without getting a message or event note in the first place? This on its own is an invitation for abuse, imo.

As posts and comments of mine have been deleted - as well without a note, warning, message or identifying signature etc. - and as even a message was deleted from my In-box and if I look at some recent going-ons, I wonder if certain 'powers' do belong in a single hand or if it wouldn't be better to get specific proceedings "confirmed" e.g. at the same level, at all levels. If someone with certain powers has (or feels the necessity) to use them, why not getting a same-level-colleague to confirm? There is always someone around and there are all humans here and - evidentially - humans tend to get corrupted by power, at all levels. I am absolutely convinced that none of the recent unappealing you-know-what events would ever have happend.

But it's getting off topic............


netcobold