Not so quiet around here :)
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YES! Ostensibly for "Like"-ing someone else's reply?? (I was given no reason, and only found out by surprise the next day.)
In fact, the entire Leaderboard (since 2009) -- with a few key exceptions, mercifully -- has been banned. That's why it's so quiet over there.
And I wouldn't know how to get in touch with any of ezlo staff, esp. the owner, without being able to DM them on the Forum. Catch-22!!
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I have the long list of banned Forum members but it has grown since Feb. 27 when I made it.
It starts... "ElCid, HSD99, Matteburk, Mai_Pensato, Crille, eonnet, hienry_k9, Forzaalfa, TomD, LibraSun, Shoktronic, DesT, Catman, kfxo, Pabla, slelieveld, akbooer, rafale77, matsohl, tunnus..."
I strongly suspect you get a pass because you author a tech blog.
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Got banned quite quickly from Vera/ezlo forum, without any warning. I was kinda asking for it, but still, they could have some sense of humour over there
@tunnus said in Not so quiet around here
:Got banned quite quickly from Vera/ezlo forum, without any warning. I was kinda asking for it, but still, they could have some sense of humour over there
Welcome to the new normal
@toggledbits said in Not so quiet around here
:@perh said in Not so quiet around here
:I've asked for them to delete my account, but they say "the jury's still out"
If you're in GDPR territory, there is no jury. Your request is ironclad.
Ummm, not really unless the data is stored in GDPR geography ITYF.
C
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Clearly they aren't using the forum platform software as intended. "Suspended" is meant to be a reasonable time based suspension rather than a permanent ban.
Others who have been "Suspended" also. won't be back then if they have the same date of 3021 ?
Appears there are no proper appeals process or procedures.
Only thing you could do is contact Customer Care for what good that might do.
Who is going to help me with Node-Red now? Is ElCid a member here ?
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Clearly they aren't using the forum platform software as intended. "Suspended" is meant to be a reasonable time based suspension rather than a permanent ban.
Others who have been "Suspended" also. won't be back then if they have the same date of 3021 ?
Appears there are no proper appeals process or procedures.
Only thing you could do is contact Customer Care for what good that might do.
Who is going to help me with Node-Red now? Is ElCid a member here ?
Yes i am here, as always I will help anyone who asks.
Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension, I have contacted CS but they seem to be just ignoring my request for a clear reason.
As to GDPR if they run servers in europe then we are covered by GDPR, even if they move the servers to the US, as I think there is a privacy agreement with the US.
Is there GDPR in the US? - GDPR USA - Cookiebot™
Is there GDPR in the US? Let Cookiebot explain GDPR in the USA to make sure you fully understand regulations and how to comply.
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Everything I've read says it does not matter where the data are stored, it matters where the owner of the data (you) live. If that were not true, GDPR would be very easy to circumvent.
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YES! Ostensibly for "Like"-ing someone else's reply?? (I was given no reason, and only found out by surprise the next day.)
In fact, the entire Leaderboard (since 2009) -- with a few key exceptions, mercifully -- has been banned. That's why it's so quiet over there.
And I wouldn't know how to get in touch with any of ezlo staff, esp. the owner, without being able to DM them on the Forum. Catch-22!!
Yes, it’s really ridiculous and all my ongoing PM’s and threads with the dev team is now just left unanswered.
Feels like I’m being rude not answering them but what can we do.
I also got the “we needed to escalate your case” answer and heard nothing more since then. -
Gees, I know a lot of those names, didn't know Pabla and Crille were banned and I certainly didn't know ElCid was banned.
Well I always speak my mind and if something doesn't work I'll say it doesn't.
@cw-kid said in Not so quiet around here
:Gees, I know a lot of those names, didn't know Pabla and Crille were banned and I certainly didn't know ElCid was banned.
Well I always speak my mind and if something doesn't work I'll say it doesn't.
Lets just say I wasn't outright banned, but was asked if I wanted to leave. Couldn't turn down the offer
.. probably would have been banned anyways thoughTo be honest, I didnt even care for that forum anymore esp since I can get plugin help from the devs here.
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Yes i am here, as always I will help anyone who asks.
Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension, I have contacted CS but they seem to be just ignoring my request for a clear reason.
As to GDPR if they run servers in europe then we are covered by GDPR, even if they move the servers to the US, as I think there is a privacy agreement with the US.
Is there GDPR in the US? - GDPR USA - Cookiebot™
Is there GDPR in the US? Let Cookiebot explain GDPR in the USA to make sure you fully understand regulations and how to comply.
@elcid said in Not so quiet around here
:Yes i am here, as always I will help anyone who asks.
Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension, I have contacted CS but they seem to be just ignoring my request for a clear reason.
As to GDPR if they run servers in europe then we are covered by GDPR, even if they move the servers to the US, as I think there is a privacy agreement with the US.
Is there GDPR in the US? - GDPR USA - Cookiebot™
Is there GDPR in the US? Let Cookiebot explain GDPR in the USA to make sure you fully understand regulations and how to comply.
I doubt they do run servers in Europe
@toggledbits said in Not so quiet around here
:Everything I've read says it does not matter where the data are stored, it matters where the owner of the data (you) live. If that were not true, GDPR would be very easy to circumvent.
Yeah. But no. Imagine the data was on a server in North Korea. Or Iraq.....
This was, and is, one of my responsibilities in my day job.
C
The Ex-Vera abuser know as CatmanV2.....
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@elcid said in Not so quiet around here
:Yes i am here, as always I will help anyone who asks.
Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension, I have contacted CS but they seem to be just ignoring my request for a clear reason.
As to GDPR if they run servers in europe then we are covered by GDPR, even if they move the servers to the US, as I think there is a privacy agreement with the US.
Is there GDPR in the US? - GDPR USA - Cookiebot™
Is there GDPR in the US? Let Cookiebot explain GDPR in the USA to make sure you fully understand regulations and how to comply.
I doubt they do run servers in Europe
@toggledbits said in Not so quiet around here
:Everything I've read says it does not matter where the data are stored, it matters where the owner of the data (you) live. If that were not true, GDPR would be very easy to circumvent.
Yeah. But no. Imagine the data was on a server in North Korea. Or Iraq.....
This was, and is, one of my responsibilities in my day job.
C
@catmanv2 said in Not so quiet around here
:Yeah. But no. Imagine the data was on a server in North Korea. Or Iraq.....
Well, yeah, OK... but I don't think that's the case here. Take a peek at where the hostname resolves. At least here in the US, it's good for a chuckle.
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Yes i am here, as always I will help anyone who asks.
Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension, I have contacted CS but they seem to be just ignoring my request for a clear reason.
As to GDPR if they run servers in europe then we are covered by GDPR, even if they move the servers to the US, as I think there is a privacy agreement with the US.
Is there GDPR in the US? - GDPR USA - Cookiebot™
Is there GDPR in the US? Let Cookiebot explain GDPR in the USA to make sure you fully understand regulations and how to comply.
@elcid said in Not so quiet around here
:Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension
Its bonkers, when did you get suspended then?
So you have not been a rebel on the forum? Seems you can get banned for any reason. Top people being kicked off.
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I have the long list of banned Forum members but it has grown since Feb. 27 when I made it.
It starts... "ElCid, HSD99, Matteburk, Mai_Pensato, Crille, eonnet, hienry_k9, Forzaalfa, TomD, LibraSun, Shoktronic, DesT, Catman, kfxo, Pabla, slelieveld, akbooer, rafale77, matsohl, tunnus..."
I strongly suspect you get a pass because you author a tech blog.
@librasun said in Not so quiet around here
:I have the long list of banned Forum members but it has grown since Feb. 27 when I made it.
It starts... "ElCid, HSD99, Matteburk, Mai_Pensato, Crille, eonnet, hienry_k9, Forzaalfa, TomD, LibraSun, Shoktronic, DesT, Catman, kfxo, Pabla, slelieveld, akbooer, rafale77, matsohl, tunnus..."
Wow, have to say I’m in a good company
Using MSR on Docker (Synology NAS), having InfluxDB, Grafana & Home Assistant, Hubitat C-8, Zigbee2MQTT
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@librasun said in Not so quiet around here
:I have the long list of banned Forum members but it has grown since Feb. 27 when I made it.
It starts... "ElCid, HSD99, Matteburk, Mai_Pensato, Crille, eonnet, hienry_k9, Forzaalfa, TomD, LibraSun, Shoktronic, DesT, Catman, kfxo, Pabla, slelieveld, akbooer, rafale77, matsohl, tunnus..."
Wow, have to say I’m in a good company
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@elcid said in Not so quiet around here
:Just for info - I have no idea what the reason for my suspension
Its bonkers, when did you get suspended then?
So you have not been a rebel on the forum? Seems you can get banned for any reason. Top people being kicked off.
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I've spoken to him at length this evening in PM and told him in my blunt way, at this rate there won't be any experts left on the forum.
Can't say I'm happy about some of the names recently gone either.
Apparently it was over whatever was said between you two in that thread about previous forum members being banned.
That thread should of been shut down well before now and what was said about it all was said back then at the time, Good or bad, right or wrong, it doesn't help anyone to keep going over it all.
I'd stopped reading that thread as I was tired of the drama so I was avoiding that thread.
Told him you were one of our top coding experts and you'd helped a lot and other Vera users on the forum and that I'd not seen you speak out of turn on any other threads that I have seen.
Also suggested he should not get so engaged with it all and let some of it go.
But I can see both sides and some of his concerns also.
But what can you do. Both sides have done things to upset the other.
I know he wasn't happy about the PM that apparently went round promoting this néw forum. Not sure if I got that PM can't remember.
I think he feels you are all against the Ezlo platform and its future success and you just want your Vera firmware as is, to hack.
I think he thinks this forum and its users are a competitor and I can't really see how as the Vera firmware is legacy anyway now and you here are not a corporate entity
It's his sand pit to play with at the end of the day.
So what can you do. I'm keeping an open mind. If the Ezlo hubs are decent when ready I'll use them as a radio only or maybe with their own dashboard app and engine.
If not I'll look else where. We have MSR now and I am running a killer Home Remote dashboard app right now, which does support other platforms.
Z-Wave.me Z-Way some of you are already using might be a good replacement.
Time will tell as Bob Marley once said. Peace go smoke some
