On 07/16/2018 01:47 PM, Shane Simmons via aur-requests wrote:
I never received any kind of notification that my account was suspended, or why. As far as I can recall, my best guess would be that it was because I had stupidly published a bug comment to the aurman AUR page and was harshly schooled by the aurman developer that his package depends on a -git package, which had to be installed manually because, again, stupidly, I didn't know that -git packages' PKGBUILDs don't contain the current version, but is instead calculated during install.
If that's why, after I understood the issue I just shrugged and went on with my life, and wasn't aware there was a continuing problem until I tried to push updates. I'm more than happy to push my changes if I can; if it can't be reinstated, though, then I'd at least like to know why, please.
I did that, because of: " Alad commented on 2018-06-06 12:00 I've already removed scores of spam from this page. The next guy who makes personal attacks or feels entitled to support without using the proper channels as kindly requested by the author will get his account suspended indefinitely. " And it is rather disingenuous to suggest that you posted *one* comment and then moved on with life. One comment, is the number of comments that weren't deleted. You've got another five comments there that I or alad deleted, which makes four comments (3 deleted) for that *one* issue, and another 2 unrelated but also deleted comments. ... Now let's consider why you were making all those comments on the AUR page to begin with. It's because you already responded to a closed, explained issue on the developer's Github repository: https://github.com/polygamma/aurman/issues/153#issuecomment-399191472 And you did so in a rude manner, on top of ignoring the resolution (you did not exactly ask for understanding, you merely told the developer he was wrong). He then banned you from his github repo *after explaining yet again*, apparently because he dislikes you and doesn't want to listen to you etc. yadda yadda yadda.[1] So... you moved over to the AUR and decided to treat that as a means of furthering your campaign of argumentation, after a couple exchanges of which I deleted most of the comments and suspended your AUR account too. Because if people aren't supposed to flood the AUR comments with questions about the upstream development, then that goes triple for using the AUR for the explicit purpose of circumventing the upstream developer's ban policy for their own support medium. FWIW your account is no longer suspended. But, keep in mind that again there was a pinned comment warning users about the kind of behavior likely to result in suspension. I don't want to see this sort of hounding again. Picking a misguided fight with people across two websites does not contribute value to the AUR. (Next time consider politely asking on e.g. aur-general "they say this is supposed to work, but I don't understand how, can some knowledgeable person please explain the concept to me".) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User [1] -- People are welcome to think whatever they wish about developers who practice an over-eager ban policy, as long as they think it somewhere other than the AUR. I also encourage people to read the discussion at https://github.com/polygamma/aurman/issues/140 before passing judgment.