Banned from Avsim!!!???

Gentlemen;

I am trying out why I was banned for spamming on your forums; I have been visiting the forums for a couple years and only became involved in a couple of topics as of late. I personally would like an explanation on why I was banned when I only posted one (1) comment into the forums and one message to the administrators concerning the breakup of McPhat and Ariane.

Although I am just a customer of Ariane AND McPhat, I was also one of the members who donated funding to your AVSIM Library before its crash a while back. I feel as if my comments about Ariane contributed to the banning; in fact I believe it is THE cause due to the prejudice most members (and a few admins) have towards that company. My comment was that of MY opinion, and my opinion alone.

However, I also do not appreciate this type of action without proof, nor warning. This action was in retaliation of my correspondence to one of your administrators. Therefore, I will forward a copy of this to other sites that I am a long standing member of, such as Flyawaysimulations, Simgameit, Flight Sim Nation, McPhat, SimflY.EU and the ATFS Virtual Flights Forums.

SGT Jacobs Rodney E
2/1 AR
US Army

I received your message inquiring about why you were banned from the AVSIM forums. I responded to your message shortly after you sent it and I investigated the problem. Perhaps the e-mail account you have on file here at AVSIM is no longer correct? I believe it was an army.mil address.

Regardless, I apologized for the inconvenience. Your account was deleted by me on accident. I was in the process of clearing the spammers out of the forums, and your name happened to fall right in between two spammers. It was an error on my part, which I fixed as fast as I could, then I reinstated your account. I was unaware that the forum system automatically sends the message you recieved regarding spamming. That is an automated message given to anyone who we delete as a spammer, it was not written by me.

Contrary to what I have now come to discover at the forums you posted in (flyaway simulation, simfly.eu, etc), this was nothing more than an accident on my part. It has nothing to do with an opinion about Ariane or Mcphat. In case you haven't noticed, we have countless posts in this forum both praising and criticising Ariane and Mcphat, so the accusation that your banning had anything to do with an opinion is very misguided. It was an accident and nothing more. It's very unfortunate that my reply to you was not received (for whatever reason) because it could have prevented those unecessary posts you made.

Your account is active here at AVSIM, and I again apologize for this accident, though in the future ask that you give me a little more time to investigate before bashing AVSIM elsewhere and leaving incorrect information.

I still utilize that address (rodney.e.jacobs@us.army.mil). Feel free to send correspondance to that address whenever something important arises.

Now, about the ban:

You can't began phantom on how shocked I was whe I arrive home to find my account has been banned for spamming; especially after messaging a administrator the night prior with a comment to a closed thread.

Try to picture getting banned just after giving props to a product from a supplier that everyone hates....you can't help but to think that this was the results.

Now, I did wait (not patiently mind you) after I sent the e-mail but anger got the better of me and I decided to retaliate ahead of any reciprocation from your staff.

Pardon me, but I am a Soldier, and I have a bad habit of anticipating others actions before they make their move. Good to have this frame of mind in this line of work.

So in light of this embarrassement between your site and myself, I suggest that you should send a complimentary reminder to all members check into their accounts from time to time to prevent such actions, such as banning members and suspending their accounts. Flight Sim Nation practices this format and they pretty much keep me checking in to be prevented from getting banned and kicked.

Again, if I haddn't said so, thank you for addressing this matter and making the necessary corrections.

SGT Jacobs, RE
2/1 AR
USA