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I get very annoyed when people say this.

The policy on the NeoBoards is exactly the same as on PPT — If you do something wrong, you will get punished. I cannot say why anyone particular may have been frozen (and bear in mind that this comment isn't intended to be directed at anyone in particular), bit I find that in general, people who create threads like this are less innocent than they appear (as I said, not implying it at anyone).

I used to speak to someone over AIM, and we were on a chat board, and they were calling everyone New Member. They IMed me and announced that they were frozen, and were saying how unfair it was. If you flamed someone here, you will be punished. I have to say that you are very lucky here, as it is a more mature society and we let you get away with quite a bit more, but with a low tolerance level becuase of a much lower average age on Neopets, I feel that offences should be taken more seriously.

One day I was raising debates on the neoboards about the av banners, with a large amount of the content really not suitable for the board. I expected to be frozen, but instead I got a Neomail from theneopetsteam telling me that Neopets are no in charge of the banners, and to contact them if I see anything wrong. I really expected to be frozen, but the staff were friendly, polite and understanding, and suggested that I stop, and they apologised for the content of the banners. I doubt very much that saying 'i like cheese' will get you banned if the above happened. (The one time I was frozen, incidentally, was because my brother thought it would be funny if I were to post 'freeze me' on the neoboards. I was frozen, but there was a form to a reclaim form, which I didn't fill in because it was my secondary account anyway.)

I would like to say, as a disclaimer (even though I said it all the way through) that this is not directed at everyone, or even anyone in particular. I know as much as I do about your cases as you do about my cow. However, I am saying that in general punishments are oftne much less random than you people think. People trying to get sympathy will never said "I was scamming people and got frozen", becuase they want people to go 'aww... sorry... have a cookie' This is definitely the case at PPT. I have been contacted on AIM once saying "Why did you ban person X. All they did was double post once." The record of this person said that they were a consistent spammer, promoting evil sites. It's not human nature to tell the truth if it makes you look bad.

Please don't anyone take offense at this (especially the guy who started the thread, complete coincidence that it turned up in your thread, I was just getting a little ennerved by the unhalting posts of 'neoboards are evil', 'monitors are evil', 'bot bot bot' etc.). This is not intended as a flame to anyone.