i will be a less active member of the forum, only commenting, not requesting. i hope this never happens again.

You don't need to do that.  Some of your comments were starting to get annoying and you didn't seem to be letting up at all.  When someone first joins an online community it's hard to tell what's appropriate from what crosses a line (I still shudder when I think of what I did to people when I first joined a forum ), and the only way any of us can learn where that line is is from participating and getting to know everyone else   We recently had a bad experience with a former member who never cared where that line was and so many of us are on edge.

Feel free to PM any of the staff if you have any questions or concerns

Actually I said "one day" about the banning, meaning no defined time. Metagross111 took half a year (altough it would have been much sooner if some other staff had admins powers). We welcome everyone on the forums, but as with every single forums on the web there are rules (or sort of) and are different from a site to another (altough generally similar). For example are more lax on randomness, especially on IRC, but there are of course limits lol (i mean if all posts by someone are just plain spam or he doesn't know where to stop), and we are less lax on purposeful attacks or the like. Our rules are located at http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=ezportal;sa=page;p=2. I'm unsure if the ones that shows up when peopel sign up are up to date, though, plus, very very few people actually read those since most of the time sites just use the default USA-related legal stuff which is 50 pages long and the same on every site

As for reputation points, they often vary depending of someone's latest posts/actions since people can rate someone every hour. Galandros went back and forth from -1 to 1 all the time and some people that were -10 went back to like 5 or 6. I think Metagross dropped to -12 or something lol. Not that they really mean a lot, though, because 4 months ago someone wanted to have fun raising my rep to 50 on purpose and I wouldn't be surprised if someone did that again in the future, not to mention that the buttons are small so people accidentally rate down someone instead of rating him up or vice versa. I wish there was more of an individual post rating system like on youtube

Yeah he is the person responsible for all the guest posts.

uhm, actually he used to be a member, he had 600 posts i think. However, his permaban leaded to his account deletion, but deleting an account won,t delete the posts unless I choose the option. Omnimaga used to allow guest posting until the spambot invasion, then we had to disable registrations completly until we found a way to block their advertisments. Now the board system we use is more secure, though, so they can't even register at all. Obviously, it's easy for someone to go around bans, but they eventually give up registering new accounts again and again since at that time we can simply increase security to slow them down. So far, metagross didn't ban evade, though, except on IRC, where I had to disable private messenging completly on my IRC client because he evaded my ignore list too (I had 9 ignores on him until I gave up and setup a wildcard as ignore)

actually he wasn't THAT bad lol . He didn't joined the forums to deliberately cause trouble like some people did in the past on IRC, but he was an ass in general and when it came to warnings he claimed he never did anything wrong and tried to shift every blames put on him towards me instead. SOme of his posts were rather offensive. He usually didn't intentionally was offensive but he didn,t do any effort to not be and clearly stated he did not care about how we felt. He also became worse and worse with the time, especially towards me. It was clear he didn't like me, Netham45 and Noahbaby from the start. His attidude is what got him banned. Some people in the past joined IRC (and forums) mostly to cause trouble. So basically Metagross111 was rude and the other troublemakers were trolls.

We could get back on topic though lol, kevin..It would be amazing to see many or any of you past projects get updated, definitely would be a beautiful experience for me ;P

Yeah, and when you make something original (well from scratch anyway) then you can do what you want and also there is no competitiveness involved ;P