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1 Why was I kicked or banned from #linux?

Why was I kicked or banned from #linux?

Most common reasons

Despite being warned, you still did not speak English.
You joined from a webchat host we have banned; please see Webchat.
You used colors, bold, beeps or other nonprintable characters.
You were advertising something in the channel or by msg.
You msg-ed, noticed, ctcp-ed or dcc-ed to everyone on the channel.
You flooded the channel (with logs, ascii art, or anything else).
You were being rude or offensive.
Your hostname was considered to be DNS spam. See http://www.dnsspam.nl/ for more information.
Your hostname, nick, ident or realname was offensive, or was advertising something.
You are suspected of being a bot.
You did not disable public away, or have enabled autorejoin.
Your nick contains characters such as '|', '`', '{', '}', '[', ']', '^' or '\'.
You are publicly present on channels for shell trading, BNCs, warez, hacking or cracking, or you were advertising them in nick, user or realname.
You were asking questions about shell trading, BNCs, warez, hacking, cracking, eggdrops or exploits.
Despite being warned not to, you continued a discussion that was inappropriate on #linux, or was considered trolling.

For a more detailed explanation of the channel rules, see our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

Some words about network bans

We, as channel operators, are trying to keep #linux a nice place to be for all who want to be there. To achieve that goal, we sometimes must make unpopular decisions. An example of these are network bans, or tld-bans. We don't like setting them, but sometimes we have no alternative.

By times, for whatever reason, we get a lot of abuse, or rule-breaking from a wide variety of hosts within one tld, or within one domain. We normally deal with these like we deal with all abuse, and set limited-time bans on some host+ident combination. However, when the amount of time we spend exceeds that which is justified given the total positive input from such domain, then we will consider setting a top-level ban for everyone in the domain. It is a law of averages.

We do realize that by doing this we also hit the normal users within such domain, so we don't take this decision lightly. These top- level bans are normally temporary; they will be removed after some time. An example of a domain that bounces regularly in and out of banned state is "interbusiness.it", an Italian hosting provider with dynamic IP for all users.