Yes, ladies and gentlefolk, ~batness had been banned!

Starting yesterday, I was banned for 24 hours. (My ban was lifted about a half hour ago)

Why? Let me begin.

A deviant, the name I cannot mention, stole *croaky's artwork last week. She re-posted an original pic by Croaky, LEFT THE SIGNATURE on the pic, and submitted it as her own.
Croaky had mentioned the art theft in her Livejournal, and I plodded on over here to report the stolen work.

After submitting a DA violation on the stolen work, I promptly left her a comment on her page saying "It's a good thing she took Croaky's art down, otherwise I was gonna spam it with flames. X D"

Probably not the kindest thing, but hey. She HAD just stolen some art! The art thief's gallery was 80% comprised of stolen art. The sucky thing was I couldn't track down all the originals here on DA, only the pic she stole from Croaky.

I also read this thief's DA journal, and all the girl does is threaten to kill people and animals, and claim she is smarter than everyone else (of course, her accusations are backed up with terrible spelling/grammar/statistics/etc). I pestered her a bit, then posted my own journal saying "WOW, this is fun!"

I received a note from DA saying if I didn't remove my journal within 24 hours, I'd be "subject to review" and possibly permanently banned. Why? For making fun of someone and mentioning the DA name. OOOKAY. Because that never happens online. Or DA for that matter. *eyeroll*

I also had ALREADY been banned for 24 hours for--"Public accusations of theft" on the ART THIEF'S DA page. It's ok, you can scratch your head too, LORD KNOWS I did. Anyway, I guess it's wrong to just throw words like "thief!" around to people that have stolen art.

Notice: I got a response from the "Help Desk."
Regardless of whether or not your accusation is true we do not allow such public statements to be made due to the hostile situations which typically follow them.
Please confine yourself to contacting the helpdesk so such situations can be quickly resolved by the proper staff.

Seems a little bit "hostile" to ban someone for correctly "accusing" someone of stealing art. Especially considering that I *did* report her for the stolen piece that I could track down. I knew other deviations were stolen, but I couldn't link the originals, so I didn't report them.

I believe it's ok to say "HEY take down your stolen art!" When it IS stolen, but I can't report the deviation. SEEMS FAIR TO ME. If I wrongly accused someone, they'd either ignore it or flame the crap outta me and I'd deserve it.
Either way that in itself doesn't deserve a ban.

I'm just glad SHE got banned.

Once again, THANKS DA for making this a SAFE, FUN, and NURTURING place to be. *thumbs up*