Just my luck...banned from elance.com

[rnmcd]

I entered a bid request to create a "mod/add-on/hack for vBulletin"...I received a message from them notifying me that violated their policies.

I had reservations about using the word "hack" in my request but that is synonymous with a modification or add-on to some coders.

[Paul M]

They banned you for using the word "hack" ??? What a bunch of muppets.

[rnmcd]

I wrote them back asking if they even read my entire bid request--didn't get a response from them.

All I was looking for was someone to work on developing something like this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=80135

and they see the word "hack" and now I'm probably getting investigated by interpol.

[Revan]

That reminds me of this geek forum I once posted on.
Here's a copypaste of a thread I posted over at another forum:

About 2 years ago, or however long ago the Win2k source code leaked, I made a joke file called "WinXp.Source.Code.spam". Yes, the extension was ".spam". The file size was 14 kb.
Anyways, inside I made some bullshi'ite Visual Basic code, stuff like

if condition (user.tries.anything)
{
freeze_computer();
laugh_manically('Har Har Har');
display_bigass_picture_of_billy_gator_and_windows_ copyright();
}

etc. So I joined this techie forum, a forum about programming and stuff, and thought Id give them a good laugh.
I posted that thing in the spam forums, and the next day I found myself being slapped with the banstick!!!111one
In the email I got, the admins had banned me for posting, get this, "Illegal and copyrighted material". WTBF!? So I joined up under another username, PMing them to try to tell them that seriously, a 14kb file with the extension .spam being the real source code of the then newest Windows OS? Come on.
But the next day, another ban. This time it was an IP ban, and a warning that if I came back I would get a letter from my ISP.
Several of my friends joined shortly thereafter, some tried to get an explanation and some just to laugh at them. They all got banned right away.

Pity I can't remember the name of the place, but this shows that even the self-proclaimed geeks do have a high ratio of dumb sods in their ranks.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sorry for hijacking the topic, but its of the same nature aint it