{"id":125,"date":"2010-06-05T21:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T21:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/box-of-arseholes\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T21:38:51","slug":"box-of-arseholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/box-of-arseholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Box of arseholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short geek rant.<br \/>\nAgain I&#8217;ve been booted from my goto torrent site; a <a href=\"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/veghead\/vm\/860\/\" title=\"network oddity\">site I blogged about before<\/a> and a site from which I have been banned more times than I like to remember. Every ban but one was unjustified and involved me accidentally transgressing one of their seemingly infinite number of rules. The &#8220;administration&#8221; there consist of a bunch of 1990&#8217;s IRC throwback kids who like to be in a position of power&#8230;you get the picture (well you do if you know what I&#8217;m talking about). If you can&#8217;t imagine them, picture the last Labour cabinet as 16 year old kids put in charge of the sixth-form common room.<br \/>\nSome examples of their impotent authoritarian posturing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got banned this time for breaking the rule &#8220;only one account per household.&#8221; This was because I sent an invite to a friend, who then tried to login to his account&#8230; while we were both using the same Internet connection. So household can mean &#8220;the people currently in the coffee shop with you&#8221; &#8211; I wonder if we can get a tax break for that?<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t get a warning or explanation, you just get blocked. If you want to find out why you were blocked, you have to go their IRC channel and talk to one of the &#8220;admins&#8221;. When I said that I thought that it was a harsh interpretation of that rule, he gave me a straw man: &#8220;I suppose you think everyone should have as many accounts as they want&#8221; and then pasted the household rule from their 10,000 commandments page, in case I didn&#8217;t understand that I was clearly a terrorist.<\/li>\n<li>At this point they like you to kneel and beg for forgiveness but seeing as I&#8217;d rather fellate a warthog, I left.<\/li>\n<li>They will immediately ban you for using a torrent client that isn&#8217;t on their state-approved list.<\/li>\n<li>A month or so ago I was given an official warning for &#8220;making an anti-racist remark&#8221; in one of the forums. You read that right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh well, time to blag another a new account and start getting my ratio up again. Honestly, what a shower of twats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short geek rant. Again I&#8217;ve been booted from my goto torrent site; a site I blogged about before and a site from which I have been banned more times than I like to remember. Every ban but one was unjustified and involved me accidentally transgressing one of their seemingly infinite number of rules. The &#8220;administration&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}