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Originally Posted by WTF
Yes TG....you are free to discuss your ban/reversal . Please tell us how not to fall into the trap you may have fallen into or helped out of one you hadn't fallen into ...
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I can't find the forum rules to copy/paste the precise language of the ban, but in short: Lifetime ban for violation of Rule #18: Multiple accounts...especially when being used by a provider to gain access to restricted information.
I'd been queried about whether or not I'd ever allowed a provider to log into my account shortly after I reviewed AlyssaXOXO - I hadn't, and panicked - presuming someone was trying to out me or maliciously do something, so I changed my password, started checking to see if there was anything I had done that could be linked back to me in real life...
Then I got banned as above for being a manhandle (I thought I was being hacked, not that I was under suspicion of being a manhandle). I started thinking about it - and before I had premium access, or even knew such a thing existed, during my first date (with Fancy) - I logged into ECCIE from her PC, and she gave me a tour of the community, explained acronyms - all the questions I'd been asking on the boards or in PMs. I'd only ever seen her once, and all subsequent logins of mine have been from my own personal computer - but I suppose it would be suspicious if a new account like mine logged in relatively soon after creation from a computer with a MAC address tied to a provider's account.
At the same time that I got banned, I read on here that she'd been banned for a year, or shortly before - or that when I got banned, her ban was extended to a year. I e-mailed the admins, and the site owners - I have a verified P411 account as well as contact with other...members and admin...outside of written word here on ECCIE, so it wasn't difficult to demonstrate that I was a unique individual that wasn't Fancy.
So to answer the question, "How do you avoid doing what I did to get banned" - I didn't violate any rules - but I wouldn't log into ECCIE from a provider's incall again just to be safe.