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filinux
Elite

PERMANANTLY BANNED FROM AMD after making ONE SINGLE COMMENT!!

Apologies for long winded yammering.  This just happened and I am very bothered by this.  I welcome all input and if it shows me I DID indeed do something that warrants banning that would be helpful to me as well. 

 

I HOPE I can find some kind of understanding here, or maybe insight, at to what just happened to me on AMD Twitch.

 

I tuned into the AMD stream as I often do and was listening. I say LISTENING as that is what I was doing only LISTENING not commenting. After some time comments by the streamers, and a large amount of what I heard said in general, was divisive and I feel would be judged by some to be borderline racist.  I always try to be a kind person but wanted to participate so I typed one thing in the entire chat and was INSTANTLY BANNED.  Faster then they could have possibly read what I wrote I was banned.  I have NEVER been banned from anything online in my 40 years of online interactions. This is what I typed VERBATIIM;

 

"Enjoy your stream everyone!! I don't want to take part in any stream that furthers anything except the judging of individuals or people for who they are as an individual. Also saying any question shouldn't be asked and discussions be had, when appropriate, is not a good way to handle an issue. Only my opinion, but I applaud celebrating history, but the way this is being presented is very divisisve. Love all of you & wish you a groovey Sunday! Not what I would hope to see from an AMD stream."

 

Before I could leave or  switch streams I am banned from AMD.  No warning, no "hey not what we are wanting here" NOTHING.   I have more problems then I would wish on anyone right now so I shouldn't let this bother me as much as it does.   I guess that is why I am trying to get some understanding.

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Sam_AMD
Community Manager

Hello again, @filinux 

It was an oversight and you've been reinstated. I wasn't there, but I learned there were numerous discussions/comments being exchanged by multiple viewers. 

 

Please check your Twitch account and let me know if you run into any problems.

 

 

Sam
Your biggest fan!
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT

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BigAl01
Volunteer Moderator

It's hard to understand why you were banned from AMD Twitch.  I don't follow that but I follow the AMD Discord postings.  Maybe you should sign up for the Red Team on Discord and give it a try?


As Albert Einstein said, "I could have done so much more with a Big Al's Computer!".

Thanks for your reply. I really don't get it either.  Anyone can watch and see that is truly the only thing I wrote.   I know I am a member of the AMD Discord and was there yesterday but I am not 100% sure its the RED TEAM Discord I am in.  Ill have to go check up on that.   I listen & watch on Twitch a lot more lately as I can still be taking care of what I need to do around here and still listen in to tech, gaming, hardware news & such I am passionate about.   I would just think AMD would have folks running their social media  be more professional then just silencing / banning any who say any point of view beyond their own. 

On a totally seperate note, I LOVE your email footer!  In the past more then once after seeing it  I have found myself sitting for a few moments thinking of exactly what great things Einstein (and other historic folks)could have done with a bellringer PC. 

Thanks again have a great day/night!

Sam_AMD
Community Manager

Hello, @filinux , 

I'm sorry to hear you're been banned, especially in this fashion. Yet, I believe it could have been a mistake or an oversight. Things like these can happen especially when there are numerous viewers commenting while watching an event, stream, etc. (Sometimes, keeping track of a "live" conversation becomes hard to track - heck, I get confused sometime, and prone to make mistakes - probably because I'm old, simple and get easily confused 😅). 

 

That said I will look into it for you and get back to you as soon as I get to the bottom of it. 

 

Thank you for your patience.

Sam
Your biggest fan!
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
Sam_AMD
Community Manager

Hello again, @filinux 

It was an oversight and you've been reinstated. I wasn't there, but I learned there were numerous discussions/comments being exchanged by multiple viewers. 

 

Please check your Twitch account and let me know if you run into any problems.

 

 

Sam
Your biggest fan!
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
filinux
Elite

Hello Sam, 

 

I hope this message finds you, and all of yours, happy & healthy.

  Thank you for looking into this for me and working for a resolution.   I trust you and accept the answer that it was an oversight.  I usually do not jump to conclusions and try to not assume things but when one of the hosts went on about how quick they are to ban folks (and even stating a lot of it has to do with "spite")  I did instantly think the worst and that is an error on my part.   

 

I just opened AMD on Twitch and I can see chat & a streamer building a lovely new PC so I believe all is well there.   Time does not allow me to participate here as much as I would like.  Even being absent a lot of late I do find this a wonderful community of good people that you, folks like @BigAl01   and the other mods keep top notch.  

 

Thanks again for your help and for all you do around here to make it a great community! 

 

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