Well, for a good friend of mine I had to create an account for this site, and after what happened to him and what I have to do now the same ignorants (not to use worse words for such primitive individuals) will delete my account as soon as possible. But after these actions only to demonstrate power when people don't find the right words to handle a discussion or they are not satisfied with the discussion itself, I am sure that I never want to be part of a site with such an extraordinary abuse of power! This abuse will quite sure this post fast enough, that nobod is able to read it. So let's make it short. Some of you might have seen this picture here on the site:



That means the account is no more allowed to contributed. And this is the accound of a good friend of mine I know for years. So I totally believe him. And his numbers here tell a different story! A man who does at least 30 contributions every day for at least 2 years now - and with only 4 or 5 exceptions all of them were released - is indicted for violating the rules? Is this the appreciation of the community for a man who spents hours every day to make data better?

I don't know what happened behind the scenes or anywhere in this confusing jungle of a forum, but the picture above is definitely a lie! Or can more than 10.000 released contributions of this man prove the opposit?

And if it is the second line, according to "vote stuffing" (what ever that means), he told me that he has vote not even 10 times anywhere on this site - in the whole time he is part of this community!

Not only that! He couldn't send me another screenshot for the second fact as he is not able to reach the respective site again, but on another site your community told him that this ban will last for 24 hours, if it is planned for longer he will recieve a message from an adiministrator. Neither the one thing happened nor the other.

So what's wrong on this site? Do you like to treat users so badly which rip their a** off to make your data better? And, if you are this admin guy who has banned my friend: If you see no chance in a discussion, you simply ban your opponent?

I heard a lot about this program, and my friend told me much about the countless hours he spent for - and how much he enjoyed it. But the things he told me know according to the pocture above, you might have awoken a sleeping lion. Find a solution for your egotistic decisions, but stop trying the easy way out. I can ensure you: You will regret! He is one of my best friends for years but I am scared of having him as an enemy!

This will be my only post ever! Maybe I should come back tomorrow one more time to find out if this way deleted by the (same?) admin!

Do you think he wouldn't have done if he could? He is banned from everything: Contributing, forum posts, even private messages to friends. And all that happened without any info. One minute he contributed, in the next minute he was blocked. So he wanted to ask in the forums.... not allowed in any forum anymore. And as he even couldn't contact any friend on the site to do some "research", he asked me to create an account.

If your friend is so bothered why did they get you to create an account and not create a second one of their own to post?

Smells like something living under the bridge to me.

You seem to harbour the misconception that any of the people here have any influence on this. Everyone on these forums is merely a fellow user with no influence whatsoever on what is going on at Invelos (or lack thereof).

Unfortunately, the company owner, Ken Cole, has not been communicating for a couple of years now, and the program has not seen any updates. The only things still working are new profiles and profile updates getting accepted into the database and these forums being up and running. Other than that, nothing, I'm afraid.

Support tickets have gone unanswered for years as well.

So I reckon the only way to get your friend's problem sorted would be to contact Invelos. But that seems to be exceedingly difficult to accomplish these days... 

Quoting Kornelia:

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He is one of my best friends for years but I am scared of having him as an enemy!

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I can't say what the lawyers of my friend are going to do then.

Blathering like that will get you zero sympathy. And if your friend ever get the ban lifted he would be wise to not be associated with you. 

Quoting Kornelia:

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In a forum where everything has to be done by rules (I'd like to say that there are too many rules to remember every line of each), how could it happen that an admin, a person which is responsible for keeping all done by the rules, now breaks the rules himself? I only can repeat: This is abuse of power!

Here is an excerpt from the forum rules:

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"Bannable" offenses include, but are not limited to, the following list of activities.

Obviously Invelos reserves the right to ban accounts for reasons not listed, and that's well within their rights as the forum owner.

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I can't say what the lawyers of my friend are going to do then.

I think I can.  They will tell him he doesn't have a leg to stand on.

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Just checking in, so everyone knows it's not me.

Surely it must be Magmadrag guys