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Angel25
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banned from hexchat

Post by Angel25 »

Help, I want to connect to the linux mint help chat room to get support. But in hexchat it has the message;

* *** You're banned! Email opers@SpotChat.org with the ERROR line below for help.
* Closing link: (mynick@*********************************) [G-Lined: Meglos. Ban evading, harassing users]

I emailed them but no response in weeks.

What do I do?
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Re: banned from hexchat

Post by CWW »

Probably you were banned because you harassed users. Did you? I am not sure.

But there are plenty of more ways to chat with your friends other than Hexchat. You should go to the software center to check out a few. Or you can download apps like Google Hangouts or Discord.

I hope that solves your problem. :)
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Re: banned from hexchat

Post by Moem »

Hello Angel25,
Please check out these previous threads:
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=351902
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=350975

It seems to me that your problem may be solved by contacting a channel op, unless you did actually harass other users. In the meantime, feel free to ask your Mint questions in the forums.

Just for clarification: you were not banned from using Hexchat. Just a specific chat server (SpotChat). This seems to happen by accident sometimes.
The reply by CWW is well meant but doesn't really address the problem, as you were looking for support with Mint.
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Re: banned from hexchat

Post by Angel25 »

I'm not banned from the channel I am banned from spotchat. I don't know who to contact.
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Re: banned from hexchat

Post by zcot »

As channel ops, we don't generally use ip block bans, there's no need to do that. If we get a persistent user who can get a dynamic connection and keeps giving harassment for minutes and hours, then we would put up a block for the day.

Meglos is banned.

mynick is not.

I don't see it on our channel bans.

You can pm me, if you want to, with any other useful info like actual nick and/or ip is probably more useful.

I'll check into it further.
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