The Automated Ban List - A tribute

marttorn

Norway5211 Posts

October 28 2011 19:48 GMT

On October the 20th 2005, Liquid´Meat created the greatest thread in Teamliquid history...

The Automated Ban List

I believe, needs no introduction. But i'm sure there are some members that are not aware of it's existence and purpose, though, so to preface this, here is a very brief explanation:

Whenever a mod/banling bans somebody, the Automated Ban List thread (that can be found in the close threads section) is updated with a post that reads like this:

[username here] was just temp banned for 2 days by [mod/banling].

That account was created on 2009-10-06 10:40:29 and had 4058 posts.

Reason: [reason here].

It's obvious why this brings entertainment to the masses of TL. For every ban is normally accompanied by a most clever of reasons. Unless they're PBU's. Or advertisement accounts. Then it's just boring.

the automated ban list is even awesome enough so that it spawned a thread intended to discuss and lol at the freshest, juiciest bans.

So, now that you know what on earth i'm talking about, let us delve into the history of the Automated Ban List...

2005-2007, Pre-reason
Liquid´Meat, co-founder of TeamLiquid, created a thread entitled "Automated Ban List", with the following message as the OP:

On October 20 2005 14:26 Liquid`Meat wrote:
All the bans will be posted in here automatically

if it turns out in a topic with whining about every ban this thread will be quickly removed again.

This guy created the best thread on TL

As this quote might make you assume, at first the Automated Ban List (hereby referred to as the ABL) was open for all users to post in.

What came as a consequence of this (spoiler: it got cluttered and annoying) we will get back to later. For now:

Back in 2005 when the list was introduced, there were no reasons that needed to be given for each individual ban. The mods would however, often make a separate post in the ABL explaining the ban, as such:

NiR was just banned by Liquid`Meat.

That account was created on 2005-10-25 23:55:34 and had 1 posts.

And below it...

On October 26 2005 00:20 Liquid`Meat wrote:
fuck you, i dont have patience with people that come here to promote their shit

It is as Shakespeare said; brevity is the soul of wit

Where was I? Ah yes, after only 3 pages Meat decided there was no point in having this thread out in the open, and closed it so that only mods were allowed to speak/discuss bans. You have to understand; back then, punishments were generally less lenient. There were no 2-day bans, and with ruthless mods such as Liquid`Drone, Rekrul and ToKoreaWithLove, well...

Susan Reader was just banned by ToKoreaWithLove.

That account was created on 2006-02-16 19:46:13 and had 57 posts.

Azerus was just banned by ToKoreaWithLove.

That account was created on 2006-03-15 20:50:29 and had 5 posts.

BigshoT was just banned by Rekrul.

That account was created on 2005-07-16 11:48:56 and had 171 posts.

RambleOn was just banned by Rekrul.

That account was created on 2005-11-19 09:17:28 and had 1 posts.

Bill Gates was just banned by Twisted.

That account was created on 2005-11-28 10:59:48 and had 31 posts.

OverTheUnder was just banned by mensrea.

That account was created on 2004-11-08 19:04:25 and had 445 posts.

There were generally a LOT more permanent bans than there were temporary ones, to put it simply

Notable bans from this period:

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Hot_Bid was just Temp banned for 1 week by ToKoreaWithLove.

That account was created on 2003-10-09 00:31:23 and had 2946 posts.

For creating a troll thread, as far as I know. Not surprised.

NonY was just Temp banned for 2 weeks by Liquid`Nazgul.

That account was created on 2004-04-26 14:59:03 and had 1723 posts

{88}iNcontroL was just Temp banned for 1 week by mensrea.

That account was created on 2004-07-18 10:24:14 and had 2435 posts.

FakeSteve[TPR] was just Temp banned for 2 weeks by uhjoo.

That account was created on 2003-07-20 07:14:56 and had 8825 posts.

FakeSteve[TPR] was just Temp banned for 2 weeks by Liquid`Nazgul.

That account was created on 2003-07-20 07:14:56 and had 9288 posts.

Mynock was just Temp banned for 1 week by Liquid`Nazgul.

That account was created on 2002-09-24 23:19:16 and had 1724 posts.

in case you weren't aware, Mynock later became a staff member but quit

Mynock was just Temp banned for 1 week by Liquid`Nazgul.

That account was created on 2002-09-24 23:19:16 and had 1724 posts.

NonY was just Temp banned for 1 week by Liquid`Nazgul.

That account was created on 2004-04-26 14:59:03 and had 2576 posts.

Snet was just banned by Rekrul.

That account was created on 2006-09-06 04:52:40 and had 9 posts

Star poster at over 3k posts at the moment. Maybe it's somebody else, or he was unbanned. Either way it's interesting

IdrA was just Temp banned for 1 week by EvilTeletubby.

That account was created on 2004-07-31 20:59:50 and had 2975 posts.

CharlieMurphy was just Temp banned for 1 week by Manifesto7.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 224 posts.

There are very likely a lot more interested bans from this period, but goddamnit, i'm too lazy to go through another 40 odd pages of ban list.

2007-Present: The Age of Reason (literally)

From here on, mods started posting and discussing more in the ABL. In the end, it led to the innovation that made the ABL the watering hole of entertainment it is today. The egg had cracked, and poking innocently out of the cracked top was... Saro?

Saros.Tester was just banned by Saro.

That account was created on 2005-03-20 23:12:09 and had 7 posts.

Reason: Die Noobie!

[Edit: Err, just testing somethin' -Saro]

Quickly followed by

ETTs.tester was just banned by EvilTeletubby.

That account was created on 2007-09-07 16:39:08 and had 0 posts.

Edit - Good stuff Saro.

And so we entered the Age Of Reason... Here we have some of the not only most interesting, but utterly hilarious bans in TL history. What is also notable is that the age of pre-reason was 63 pages long.

The age of reason, going from 2007 to the present, has over 940 pages of bans. That's what we call SC2 traffic.

Do you know what that also means? That means i'm far too lazy to go through all of that! I have done it in the past, but I don't have the most excellent of memories, so here I present to you:

Tdot. Yes, tdot. I apologize in advance to Blind-Rawr, I know you hate it when somebody gives him a mention, but you cannot recollect the ABL without a mention.

Here is where it all began
Short Disclaimer:
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**I do not guarantee that I can list even nearly all of Tdot's bans. He has an overwhelming amount of accounts that were all banned, and some of them did not even appear on the ban list. I will list those that I can find. I would like to list them in order, but it's all a little confusing so I make no guarantees~~**

List is spoilered for fairly extreme length, although I do suggest taking a gander just to get an idea of how silly tdot is

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tdotkrayzee was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-09-14 23:47:10 and had 1 posts.

Reason: Previously banned user.

teedotkrayz was just banned by Chill.

That account was created on 2009-09-15 02:02:37 and had 2 posts.

Reason: Previously banned user.

teedot was just banned by Carnac.

That account was created on 2009-08-25 20:54:00 and had 2 posts.

Reason: Previously banned user.

tdotkrayzisback was just banned by Manifesto7.

That account was created on 2009-02-24 06:33:07 and had 7 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

pwned was just banned by vGl-CoW.

That account was created on 2009-09-03 01:08:36 and had 1 posts.

Reason: - is attempting to own the system by constantly making new accounts

- does not realize it takes literally five seconds to ban every new account

- is pretty much a dumbass

T-Dot-Kray-Zee was just banned by vGl-CoW.

That account was created on 2009-12-09 04:01:00 and had 4 posts.

Reason: oh hey tdot, i'm sure you can show yourself out by now

T-Dot-Krayz was just banned by Kennigit.

That account was created on 2009-12-09 05:25:16 and had 1 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

t-dotkrayz was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-10 23:12:27 and had 1 posts.

Reason: sigh.

tdotkrayz lives was banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-10 23:37:04 and had 0 posts.

tdotkrayz still here was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-10 23:46:24 and had 1 posts.

Reason: Sorry pal. Keep switching IPs though. I am sure you will win eventually.

tdotkrayz is swiper was just banned by SonuvBob.

That account was created on 2009-12-11 13:30:31 and had 3 posts.

Reason: Banning people is fun

tdotkrayzreturns was just banned by SonuvBob.

That account was created on 2009-12-11 14:33:06 and had 1 posts.

Reason: hi

teadotkrayz was just banned by Plexa.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 21:29:57 and had 1 posts.

Reason: Bye

tdotkrazyissorry was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-09-15 13:47:35 and had 1 posts.

TheRealTdotkrayz was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 22:40:06 and had 0 posts.

Reason: pew

tdot krayz was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 22:56:00 and had 0 posts.

Reason: pew pew

tdotkrayz pewpewpew was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:03:24 and had 0 posts.

Reason: pew pew pew - exactly

tdot pewpew kablaaam was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:08:27 and had 0 posts.

Reason: enough for today k?

no zatic pewpewpew was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:12:47 and had 0 posts.

Reason: .

pewpewpew tdotshoots was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:14:14 and had 0 posts.

Reason: jesus

jesus tdot pewpewpew was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:16:05 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

u have reasons pewpe was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:17:55 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

ihavemyreasonspewpew was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:19:50 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

zatic has reason pew was just banned by Plexa.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:21:31 and had 0 posts.

Reason: Boom

tdotkrayz boomboom was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-15 23:29:31 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

havocstrikes was just banned by Kennigit.

That account was created on 2009-12-17 06:11:19 and had 1 posts.

Reason: hey tdotcrazy

Hey Kennigut - tdot was just banned by SonuvBob.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 11:28:01 and had 5 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

im tdotkrayz was just banned by Plexa.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 14:55:10 and had 0 posts.

Reason: Nope

fffuuu im 200 - tdot was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 22:56:20 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

tdotkrayz WAS 200 was just banned by vGl-CoW.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 23:01:04 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

ur a nazi!!! - tdot was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 23:03:20 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

how do u ban so fast was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 23:05:06 and had 0 posts.

Reason: [image loading]

tdotgivesup4today was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 23:07:41 and had 0 posts.

Reason: good decision

hahajustkidding-tdot was just banned by zatic.

That account was created on 2009-12-20 23:11:32 and had 0 posts.

Reason: I have my reasons.

Now, as I said, I am quite sure he has more accounts... but I feel like i'm working in a sweatshop, listing all these bans here. So I'll stop with tdot for now. And I'm sure blindrawr supports that decision.

Now, on to another interesting part of TeamLiquid's history of bans. A particular fellow by the name of CharlieMurphy. Yes, he is in fact the single user who has the most bans on TeamLiquid (making tons of accounts doesn't count), sitting at about 21-23 bans across his two known accounts. Here are the bans from his main account. (spoiled for neatness and for somewhat length)

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CharlieMurphy was just Temp banned for 1 week by Manifesto7.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 224 posts.

CharlieMurphy was just Temp banned for 1 week by Manifesto7.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 2321 posts.

CharlieMurphy was just Temp banned for 1 week by SonuvBob.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 9118 posts.

Reason: The power of yubee compels me.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by Kennigit.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 11450 posts.

Reason: You are shitting it up too much.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by Last Romantic.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 12624 posts.

Reason:
On February 25 2009 07:36 CharlieMurphy wrote:
last post in this thread gets a temp ban

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PULL THE TRIGGER

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 weeks by Last Romantic.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 12740 posts.

Reason: Ignored several direct warnings. Do not unban.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 1 week by Kennigit.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 16182 posts.

Reason: Your posting sucks too much to handle. You don't seem to care about the quality of shit that you produce in threads. 1 liners, image macros, the list goes on. Next one is permanent - Love, Staff

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 weeks by EvilTeletubby.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 16732 posts.

Reason: No Charlie! That's a bad Charlie!

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 weeks by SonuvBob.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 17055 posts.

Reason: You are a huge fail.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by FakeSteve[TPR].

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 18976 posts.

Reason: charlie, post properly -_-

"USE LOTS OF BARRACKS" is hardly what I'd call a worthwhile response.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by FrozenArbiter.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 19615 posts.

Reason: Come on Charlie, really? I mean REALLY?

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by Plexa.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 19835 posts.

Reason:
On April 16 2010 06:41 CharlieMurphy wrote:
pics or it didn't happen

can you stop posting like shit please Charlie

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 1 week by Kennigit.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 19871 posts.

Reason: No replays posting in theorycraf bullshit sc2 thread.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 weeks by Liquid`Nazgul.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 20093 posts.

Reason:
yes, a ski mask if you speak english.

I strongly suggest not combining condescending comments with being wrong.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 days by EvilTeletubby.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 20541 posts.

Reason: What the hell Charlie... you should know better than to quote a massive train of images adding only a single shitty useless line.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 1 week by Daigomi.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 22027 posts.

Reason: Come on Charlie. Your recent posting has been better, but that thread is for serious discussion and they specifically asked people not to fuck around in it.

CharlieMurphy was just temp banned for 2 weeks by Plexa.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 22203 posts.

Reason:
On October 04 2010 08:07 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I didn't read the op yet, but I will. I would like to say that these fuckers are imbalanced. Also, why is their upgrade icon an orange flame? Shouldn't it be.. blue?

You set a deplorable standard for the community to follow with your posting. As a ""veteran"" we expect better. You have used up your 9 lives, next one is permanent.

CharlieMurphy was just banned by Plexa.

That account was created on 2006-03-21 23:37:30 and had 22893 posts.

Reason: [image loading]

Lives remaining: 0

Certainly, in the history of the ABL there are many more tales worth telling. Fanaticist, GG.NoRe and the all-too recent Texas Instruments guy. Nevertheless, these are all tales for another day. Well, not really, but I'm tired.

Thank you everybody, and no there is no TL;DR version. Long live the ban-list.

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i luv u blindrawr i do im really sorry but yaeh i love u

edit: as someone accurately pointed out, IdrA definitely deserves a mention here. And by a mention, well:

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Yeah, that. Thanks to zeru for providing the image.

tMomiji

United States1115 Posts

October 28 2011 19:51 GMT

Wow; IC got banned once? I wonder what happened?

Nyovne

Netherlands19135 Posts

October 28 2011 19:59 GMT

On October 29 2011 04:51 OmiDeLta wrote:
Wow; IC got banned once? I wonder what happened?

He actually has 7 bans and 10 warnings.

edit: Bans for the bangod!

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

October 28 2011 20:11 GMT

I was really looking forward to this.
I honestly had no idea who tdot or CharlieMurphy were, and it's really weird seeing the people we know and love as admins and mods today getting banned left and right.

HwangjaeTerran

Finland5967 Posts

October 28 2011 20:11 GMT

But on account SpoR, Charlie has been much more nicer.

right, right?

right..

marttorn

Norway5211 Posts

October 28 2011 20:13 GMT

On October 29 2011 05:11 HwangjaeTerran wrote:
But on account SpoR, Charlie has been much more nicer.

right, right?

right..

Right! I forgot to mention his alt account. I don't see him around too often, but it seems he's posting better yeah. He does already have a 90 day and a 30 day I believe on SpoR though, but I assume that's in part because of his previous accounts sins.

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

October 28 2011 20:15 GMT

This actually should be spotlighted, it's a part of TL's history being explained.

SpoR has been steadily improving in posting quality.

TheToast

United States4808 Posts

October 28 2011 20:25 GMT

No mention of GG.nore and the 22 alt accounts? lol.

-edit: also don't forget the infamous 90 day idrA ban after he unleased his minons on Chill.

marttorn

Norway5211 Posts

October 28 2011 20:27 GMT

On October 29 2011 05:25 TheToast wrote:
No mention of GG.nore and the 22 alt accounts? lol.

I made a mention at the end! But I was tired as shit (doing this all in one evening) from tracking down (that is, essentially hundreds of ABL pages) all those Tdot accounts

I tried searching around for info on gg.nore, but honestly in the end I was too lazy. And I don't want to make blind-rawr anymore mad by giving that "thrash any publicity" ;D

TheToast

United States4808 Posts

October 28 2011 20:31 GMT

#10

On October 29 2011 05:27 marttorn wrote:

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I made a mention at the end! But I was tired as shit (doing this all in one evening) from tracking down (that is, essentially hundreds of ABL pages) all those Tdot accounts

I tried searching around for info on gg.nore, but honestly in the end I was too lazy. And I don't want to make blind-rawr anymore mad by giving that "thrash any publicity" ;D

I'll take the risk of angering Blind-Rawr

Here:

The Black was just banned by Plexa.

That account was created on 2011-10-01 13:03:01 and had 222 posts.

Reason:

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On June 25 2011 04:31 p4NDemik wrote:
For reference as I'm getting lost in the sea of accounts:

The GG.NoRe Umbrella of Affiliates

gongryong - 1430 posts - Banned
Sovetsky Soyuz - 717 posts - Banned
whiterabb1t - 681 posts - Banned
papyrus - 391 posts - Banned
mage365 - 137 posts - Banned
Q.E.D. - 134 posts - Banned
Pope - 53 posts - Banned
Darth Vader - 50 posts - Banned
Qi - 31 posts - Banned
Solid Materials - 23 posts - Banned
KMJ - 16 posts - Banned
Black Hole - 10 posts - Banned
C6H12 - 5 posts - Banned
Star Catcher - 4 posts - Banned
fractals - 3 posts - Banned
Supreme Court - 3 posts - Banned
Star Gazer - 1 post - Banned
Hattori Hanzo - 1 post - Banned
Ukyo - 1 post - Banned
300 - 0 posts - Banned
jamakelss - 0 posts - Banned
3 - 0 posts Banned
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Add another one to the list.

iamperfection

United States9642 Posts

October 28 2011 20:37 GMT

#11

Is there a reason CharlieMurphy was given so many chances? Did he contribute in the majority of his posts or something?

marttorn

Norway5211 Posts

October 28 2011 20:46 GMT

#12

On October 29 2011 04:51 OmiDeLta wrote:
Wow; IC got banned once? I wonder what happened?

Incontrol was a very very active poster on TL back in BW; and he stepped out of line on occasion. Now that he's a more important figure and personality within the community, that rarely happens.

Darkdeath3: I've asked that myself, in one of his early bans kennigit said the next one was perm. I think if one single mod handled all his trash then he would be permed long ago.

ShoCkeyy: IdrA was the most-banned user until an update in september this year, where an additional ban on Murphy's SpoR account let him take the lead. I guess I could include IdrA's bans at some point?

PraeTor: IdrA is very close, at about 21 bans compared to Charlie's 22/23 (can't quite remember). TI and GG.NoRe were never temped, well, GG.nore probably was at one point, but after that it got crazy with all his alt accounts.

TI never got any temps either, it was all perms. And as I said, PBU's who make a ton of accounts I don't count as much

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

October 28 2011 20:47 GMT

#13

On October 29 2011 05:37 Darkdeath3 wrote:
Is there a reason CharlieMurphy was given so many chances? Did he contribute in the majority of his posts or something?

By the time he started to keep posting ban-worthy material, he was a forum vet, so yes.

ShoCkeyy

7815 Posts

October 28 2011 20:48 GMT

#14

Isn't IdrA with the most bans? Lol.... I could of sworn he had the most. I've probably had like 4 through out my whole TL career since '03

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

October 28 2011 20:51 GMT

#15

On October 29 2011 05:48 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Isn't IdrA with the most bans? Lol.... I could of sworn he had the most. I've probably had like 4 through out my whole TL career since '03

Nah, IdrA can't even compare with most of the people mentioned by marttorn. IdrA simply hasn't had the number of temps that CharlieMurphy got, or the innumerable temps of TI and GG.NoRe.

jalstar

United States8198 Posts

October 28 2011 20:53 GMT

#16

I think you actually missed most of the tdot bans. There are lots of accounts with names like "(mod names here) are ballers", 4 word names that start with t, d, o, and t, and stuff like "GotDota".

marttorn

Norway5211 Posts

October 28 2011 20:55 GMT

#17

On October 29 2011 05:53 jalstar wrote:
I think you actually missed most of the tdot bans. There are lots of accounts with names like "(mod names here) are ballers", 4 word names that start with t, d, o, and t, and stuff like "GotDota".

Yes, I suspected as much. I was going by what I could find in the ban list searching from page 200 and backwards. I still think it gives an idea about his obsessive account-making though