Sudden Thoughts about WHT

[TheNetCode]

I have been a member of WHT for a little while now along with WHC and until tonight I was a promoter of both sites. Now as I sit here writing this I realize that I am no longer a promoter of WHT. This sounds strange, but maybe not. I was surfing the posts in the requests for hosting area tonite when suddenly I had my account disabled. I know this sounds weird and yes you think that I must have done something, well I didnt. I recieved no warning or email as to what my infraction was.

I had read posts similar to this in this forums and others over the past few weeks. When I read them I thought that they had to have done something wrong. That was until it just happened to me. It is beyond my belief that you would want to alienate your members in such a way that they would create negative publicity, but it seems that they do this through their totally inept usage of banning good members.

Forums such as WHT and WHC are here to serve a purpose and as such should have rules that need to be followed. Ahh but when there are no rules infractions that you are aware of such as oversurfing the forums, then what is the reasoning for banning supportive members.

It is amazing too that they seem to take things to extremes and do not reply to your requests for clarification on what has happened to your account. This only gives myself and others that this has happened to a good reason to shift their support fully and entirely to the smaller forums such as WHC that believe their forums are a place for their members to not only enjoy and utilize the service, but to express themselves.

My support is behind WHC entirely now and I will shift all my business that I was putting on WHT network to this one. I wish to enjoy and utilize the forums for what they are intended to be, but if I am to have my account disabled for and infraction of unknown reason other than surfing their pages, than I wish to no longer be associated with such a company.

So I now say WHC all the way and lets destroy the competition for them.


TheNetCode

[fm-2]

I have been a member of WHT for a little while now along with WHC and until tonight I was a promoter of both sites. Now as I sit here writing this I realize that I am no longer a promoter of WHT. This sounds strange, but maybe not. I was surfing the posts in the requests for hosting area tonite when suddenly I had my account disabled. I know this sounds weird and yes you think that I must have done something, well I didnt. I recieved no warning or email as to what my infraction was.

I had read posts similar to this in this forums and others over the past few weeks. When I read them I thought that they had to have done something wrong. That was until it just happened to me. It is beyond my belief that you would want to alienate your members in such a way that they would create negative publicity, but it seems that they do this through their totally inept usage of banning good members.

Forums such as WHT and WHC are here to serve a purpose and as such should have rules that need to be followed. Ahh but when there are no rules infractions that you are aware of such as oversurfing the forums, then what is the reasoning for banning supportive members.

It is amazing too that they seem to take things to extremes and do not reply to your requests for clarification on what has happened to your account. This only gives myself and others that this has happened to a good reason to shift their support fully and entirely to the smaller forums such as WHC that believe their forums are a place for their members to not only enjoy and utilize the service, but to express themselves.

My support is behind WHC entirely now and I will shift all my business that I was putting on WHT network to this one. I wish to enjoy and utilize the forums for what they are intended to be, but if I am to have my account disabled for and infraction of unknown reason other than surfing their pages, than I wish to no longer be associated with such a company.

So I now say WHC all the way and lets destroy the competition for them.


TheNetCode

Strange, i"ve been a member of WHT for close to two years now (ever since I registered on phpBB.com, and when WHT still had hosting request & free hosting request forums)
I don't post very much, but I read three-four hours a day, never had a runin with the mods / admins... Thomas, Inogenious, anon-e-mouse, and the whole gang is normally very helpful, and rather a bunch of chatterbugs :P Have you tried going to #wht on irc.inetirc.com ? You might be able to ask there...

BTW, do you happen to be the guy who keeps saying "I'm interested, please pm me"?

-Christian

[kooshin.com]

Well like you said thenetcode everyone will say that there must be other side of the story untold. It is not a new thing that wht has done and there are many cases like this but it appears you can't reach the truth when you need it. My advice to you is keep contacting their helpdesk and see what they have to say.

[TheNetCode]

No I am not that guy. But they say I pm a guy, for which I did at his request and they say that it is considered spam. Now I find it strange that answering a a pm is considered spam. As I too had no problem or warnings whatsoever from them prior. Also yes I have tried to talk to them on chat, but to no avail. They wont discuss anything with you that way even in private chat. I find this very strange, but alas I can say that I will not worry about it anymore as I have requested the proof of what they are calling spam and I recieved no proof yet. I still would like to enjoy the forums and the chat that I have had with many members there, but it will be up to them. Like I said though there are other forums such as this one that you can find great people on and that puts theirs to shame when it comes to an overall great community. It is a shame that such a potentially great site can treat their members with such utter inconsideration. Their rules speak of fairness and yet they do not follow these guidelines themselves. What a shame.

[TheNetCode]

I did finally receive a response from iNet about this and the response was just more than a little unprofessional. So as I can see they care nothing about honest mistakes. They say I spammed another member via PM or email. I know now that the member i responed to via email to a solution to his problem was against their rules. For which I did not know this prior. I have received many emails and pm from people on their network that I believed was the true meaning of providing help to one another especially when the member asked for a help via email. As I found out also my email went directly to an admin and not this member. I saw that the email was addressed to them. I find it strange that they would set it up that way unless they were fishing for someone to violate a policy. I admitted to them that if this was a violation than I was guilty of responding to help a "member" with their problem and not an attempt at spam, but Gabriel Murphy believes according to his email to me for which I have saved that anyone who sends messages to clients in their network is guilty of spamming and the best part was his unending Critisizm of my mispelling of one word in my letter to him. The word being receive since I mistakenly put the i before e as he so elegantly pointed out. I have not figured out what this had to do with my complaint or request to see proof of the alleged violation, but hey what do I know I have only been a manage for over 20 years with a large fortune 500 company. Strange that they never told me that I should look at the customers spelling of every word and focus on that instead of the actual issue at hand. Well I guess a professional run company WHT and iNet are not. So good ridance to bad rubbish and welcome to a good forums such as Webhostingchat.com and I will be promoting you guys to everyone.

Kevin

[kooshin.com]

Well everybody acts in a way and the spelling thing isn't that important but like I said everyone is different.You can still ask them to provide a proof of spamming and since you had no warnings before then I guess they shouldn't just disable your account because even if you did make a mistake then it will be the first one or the first warning.

[TheNetCode]

Agreed. I am man enough to admit a mistake and told them that if I did violate a rule to just provide me with the proof and how it is considered spam. If I am in the wrong then fine and I will admit it. Allthough I am not sure what I did wrong as they provide no proof to anyone that requests it as they say they dont have to. I have noticed here that if someone violates a rule you tell them about it and let them understand that this is against the rules. That makes the difference in a professionally well run forums. Good Job.

TheNetCode

[fcolor]

They will review your account within a few months and will enable it. WHt has very strict rules and if someone breaks them no matter by mistake or not the cut the membership. Anyway it is better to explain and wait your account to be activated.

Have a good one
Dimitar

[JeffEDH]

I had a problem with WHT, a simple mis-communication/understanding and my account was disabled as well. Since then, I have worked with them and they have given me back my account with limited access until they reinstate me to full access. Not sure why the process has to be this intensive, but I admire the steps they take to make sure that their site runs smoothly. Guess they have to with a member base that large...

[Muzzleflash]

I got banned for saying that it would be a good thing if someone made a virus that acted in a passive manner to listen for scanning infected machines, and then infected them using the vulnerability associated with the virus they have scanning, and removed the infection and locked the machine down.

Although that I can sort of see why it could have been taken to be "encouraging illegal behavior". Eh. They never had a problem with the fact that I buy domains that are under heavy DDoS attack and use proprietary techniques to stop them.

(Then sell the domain back to the owner with only a small charge to reflect my time invested)

I'm about to become a two man operation shortly, so I'll have him make his own account there to continue representing 'the company' (and asking any questions I happen to have, hehe).