My account was unjustifiably suspended

[GrampaWildWilly]

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From 2025/5/13 until 2025/6/30 (today) my GitHub account was suspended. This suspension was not justified. It appears that somebody complained about the multiple posts I was making here. This resulted in what appeared to be spam from me. You need to be educated. Those E-mail notifications arrived in your inbox because you asked GitHub to send you those notifications. You are not supposed to complain about notifications that YOU ASKED to receive. You need to read this documentation:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/setting-up-notifications/configuring-notifications

There are multiple ways for you to attenuate the volume of notifications you might receive from me, up to ignoring my user ID. You should never complain to GitHub about my posts here. I am always polite, on-topic, respectful, & I hope helpful. While I was suspended, I could not post helpful replies here. Worse, my many tutorials in this forum showing how to use VDH became invisible. You should remember that you requested any notifications from GitHub about my activity. If you want to receive fewer notifications, there are GitHub features for doing that. DO NOT report me to GitHub again. This situation was entirely unacceptable & it took repeated complaints to GitHub support before they finally recognized their error & reinstated me earlier today. Did I get an acknowledgement that they had made a mistake? Did I get an apology? Hah! You must be kidding. I'll just have to be content that my account has been reinstated & I can resume helping my fellow users here.

Addon & CoApp version and details

Not that it's particularly relevant here but . . .

Windows 11 Pro 64-bit version 24H2 build 26100.4484, Firefox 140.0.2 64-bit, licensed VDH 9.5.0.2, CoApp 2.0.20

[RobertL-CH]

Welcome back. You were missed.

[EloyerKings]

I just got here, but I'm glad you're back... I did see your user name helping in almost every thread I consulted regarding my own problems, so it baffles me they reported you... hopefully they won't anymore. Welcome back!

[GrampaWildWilly]

Thank you. If you see my posts now, that's a good thing. During the 2 months I was hassling with GitHub admins, none of my posts was visible. Not a single one. You would have had no idea I even existed.

I mention this discussion at least once in every thread I participate in. A couple of people have wondered how this discussion was relevant to their problem. It's not. But I am trying to get the word out there about this problem I had in an attempt to make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm hoping by posting the link I put in my original post upthread that people will realize they are getting notifications they asked for. If they don't like seeing frequent notifications due to my posts, they need to take action by changing their GitHub settings, even up to the point of ignoring my user ID. That will definitely stifle notifications from me. Of course, they also won't see any of my posts. Oh well. As long as some people benefit from my interventions here, I'll keep posting here.

It's still up in the air whether another complaint about me will cause my account to be suspended again. There's nothing stopping anybody from complaining about me. Or about anybody else, for that matter. So I still feel vulnerable to losing my account again. I am trying to get GitHub support to realize that complaints need to be researched a bit more deeply than it appears they do now. They need to be more aware of what really is spam & differentiate that from an enthusiastic, helpful participant who just tries to help everybody he can. So far, I have not managed to catch anybody's attention over there. But my ticket is still open. They go weeks, even months, without responding to tickets. My case is not unique in that respect. But I will keep hounding them until they acknowledge that I do not post spam & any complaints about me should be reflected back on the complainer to change his or her GitHub settings. And maybe that will get them to treat other similar complaints about other people with the same increased level of care. They appear to have a huge backlog of open support tickets. I wonder what percentage is the sort of unjustifiable complaint that got me banned for 2 months. Food for thought. Thought by the GitHub admin department.

[Surfliquid]

I am also glad you are back! I only recently joined and you were very supportive and I am thankful you gave time to my questions!