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August 01, 2003

SO LONG, HOTMAIL

If you're new to beta-7.com, welcome! Read all about my fight with sega/visual concepts in my blog ARCHIVES, starting on March 21, and check out the evidence I've compiled in the SEGASWINDLE and BLACKOUTS sections.

Well, the kinks seem to have been worked out with this new server, so I won't need to be using crappy-ass hotmail any more. If you need to reach me, it's back to good old beta-7@beta-7.com.

Speaking of email, seems some people are jumping on sega's bandwagon and trying to silence me as well -- I got banned from operationsports.com the other day. I emailed the forums administrator, Brent Doughty to find out why. Here's the transcript:

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From: "Beta 7"
To: "Brent Doughty"
Subject: Banning
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003

Mr. Doughty,

Tried to get in the forums and got this:

"Your account has been banned or locked: really you are amusing, we just got bored of you really quick. Oh and I guess you missed the NO ADVERTISING of your site policy we have mentioned numerous time."

I really don't see how you can claim I was "advertising"; I wasn't making any money off my site, and it pertained to espn nfl football, so I figured it was on-topic. People were wondering what was up with the site, and i was answering them (which i would of put in the already existing thread if you hadnt locked it). As you can see, I've only done a handful of posts to your boards, so its not like I was flooding your site with spam or something.

Regarding being "bored" with me, is it your policy to ban people from posting on your site when you get "bored" with them?

Just wondering what's really going on here…

Thanks,
Beta-7


From: "Brent Doughty"
To: "Beta 7"
Subject: Re: Banning
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:11:46 -0700

Money has nothing to do with it. Our advertising policy
covers any who owns a site trying to direct traffic to it.
Once does not have to be in the business of making money to
have the desire/need to advertise.

It was in the TOS you agreed to and failed to adhere to.
As far as the Beta-7 stuff it was getting tiresome, real
fast and so was locking posts on it (3 or 4 were of yours).
Sure some of the kids are easily amuse by this stuff but
we try to cater to a different crowd.

As far as bored, I get that when I have to lock up a
persons threads a few times over the same problem. Hence
we solve the problem by banning you from the site.

Anything else I can assist you with?

From: "Beta 7"
To: "Brent Doughty"
Subject: Re: Banning
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003

So even though you guys had a sticky of "The Official Beta-7 Discussion" before I ever even posted to your site, and you apparently had no problem with me when I was posting gameplay footage, you're booting me off now because of "advertising"? What about the other board posters who link to other sites? Why haven't they been banned? Seems like kind of a double standard, especially since I was never given a warning about being banned, and several of the threads that were locked weren't even started by me.


From : "Brent Doughty"
To: "Beta 7"
Subject: Re: Banning
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:49:08 -0700

Sometimes life throws you lemons...

Hmm now I am thirsty for some lemonade...

Gotta run to the fridge now...

Later

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--Whatever, Napoleon! Good luck with your little lemonade stand!

Posted by beta-7 at August 1, 2003 12:04 PM

Comments

boofuckinghoo where are the damn gameplay vids

Posted by: at August 1, 2003 12:09 PM


just go on there and make a new account. if your ip is banned, ask someone how to use proxies. its the internet. there is no such thing as banning!

Posted by: captain obvious at August 1, 2003 01:11 PM


My ip was banned, but it seems kinda pointless to waste time finding out about proxies and stuff to get back into a site where the admin doesnt want me, and would probalby just ban me again anyway. screw em, its their loss.

Posted by: beta-7 at August 1, 2003 01:30 PM


This guy is an ass. You should just get your own forums somewhere with login names and passwords a and such so we don't have to put up with idiots like the people who currently hang out in your forums.

Posted by: Sega Slayer at August 1, 2003 01:45 PM


Yeah, it is a pain in the ass putting up with these morons, but i thought it was important to have a free and open forum where people could post anonymously if they wanted to, in case any other beta testers out there were afraid of coming forward (especially now that sega is clearly monitoring this site)

Posted by: beta-7 at August 1, 2003 02:09 PM


We all know this is a site by Sega to build up the game. I like it though since it is better than paying for insider or gamespot complete. Notice never once is something bad said about the game, which he cant help praise every time he mentions it for the crash cam and crib modes. Anyway i think this was a really good thing anyway, and I am sure you will get plenty of buyers because of it. You better hide than destroy thing in the game for an easter egg for us.

Posted by: Thanks for the Vids Sega at August 1, 2003 03:30 PM


Boo-frick-ity-whooooo.


You suck, JACKASS.

Posted by: at August 1, 2003 03:39 PM


If it is a Sega ad campaign then it will dissapear once the game comes out won't it? Lets just wait and see if that happens before we all start spouting crazy theories about the site.

Posted by: Sega Slayer at August 1, 2003 04:32 PM


"Notice never once is something bad said about the game, which he cant help praise every time he mentions it for the crash cam and crib modes."

--dude, are you kidding me? are you looking at the same site i am? THIS GAME RUINED MY LIFE! how do i "praise" the game "every time" i mention it? i haven't talked about the crib since a few days after the site went up (which i later realized was a mistake even talkig about it), and i only talk about fp mode in the context of trying to figure out what about it caused my blackouts. are you wearing some kind of special glasses, or smoking something, or both, when you look at this site?

Posted by: beta-7 at August 1, 2003 04:41 PM



On April 27, I was able to capture this blackout on tape. I go into a violent hypnotic trance, with no memory of it afterwards. I was so freaked out when I saw this tape that I couldn't even write for 3 days!

Click here to see the video clip (1.9 MB).

if you had no memory of it afterwards why do you remmeber you were video taping it as soon as you wake up jackass????

Posted by: fin at August 1, 2003 04:53 PM


i don't remember what happens DURING the blackout, the part where i behave like a football player, dumbass. what, did you think my entire memory bank gets wiped clean every time i have one of these?

Posted by: beta-7 at August 1, 2003 05:21 PM


ya know, i think the peeps who are slagin ya off since ya came back are one person, trying to piss ya off, so ignore em B-7, they worthless

Posted by: RaZiel at August 1, 2003 05:38 PM


We haven't kicked ya out of FGO yet. You should come try to do that too.


*we know it's an ad campaign dap*

Posted by: Forget about it rick at August 1, 2003 06:17 PM


whats up with that last email? Brent Doughty is a bitch.

Posted by: at August 1, 2003 06:26 PM


Their banning you, and locking all beta-7 posts is pansy ass. They act like they are better than everyone, because they didn't ask for a beta disc. I loved OS until that. That is pretty petty.

Then when you have a valid argument he starts talking about lemmons. And he caters to a different crowd then kids. How f'ing childish. At least show some backbone, and answere peoples questions.

Posted by: implayingeq at August 1, 2003 07:22 PM


what

Posted by: vader at August 1, 2003 07:22 PM


"are you wearing some kind of special glasses, or smoking something, or both, when you look at this site?"

well, I am drinking something...but that's beside the point. either way, I personally think this site is way too professional to be pulled off by a kid. and I say kid since your mom has to take you everywhere which means you are under 16 which means you dont have a job which means it is unlikely that you would have enough money to pay for all this. i have a site myself and I know how much all of this would cost. Either way, NFL 2k3 was a terrible game(read the review at my site) so no marketing campaign could get me to buy 2k4

Posted by: Visit GameReign at August 1, 2003 08:04 PM


you shoudl be able to edit posts, I just made one a sec ago. I just had a question, what times of day were the videos taken which feature you falling off your couch taken?

Posted by: Visit GameReign at August 1, 2003 08:18 PM


He said he's 19.

Posted by: at August 1, 2003 08:24 PM


Sega Slayer your gonna feel like a real ass when Sega admits, or somehow this comes to light, that this is a hoax by sega. Considering you hate sega with a passion, you are in turn actually helping sega. Bad publicity >>>>> NO publicity

Posted by: at August 1, 2003 08:45 PM


where are the gameplay vids already

Posted by: at August 1, 2003 08:55 PM


even if he is 19 he cant afford this site, do you have any idea how much this costs. Let's see, with all this I would say at least 500MB storage with monstrous bandwidth lets say 10 GB. They are using Datapipe.net as their host(quick WHOIS search) which is one of the best, but probably the most expensive. Their lowest plan with 500MB space and 35GB transfer costs $99/month. That's $1200 a year.

Posted by: Visit GameReign at August 1, 2003 08:57 PM


That Brent cat should change his name to Ashton Kutcher.
He punk'd you big time.

Posted by: QU_Kingpin at August 1, 2003 10:24 PM


he isnt gunna have any more gameplay videos if he hates sega so just stop asking for them. IDIOTS!!!

Posted by: Hugh Gass at August 2, 2003 12:05 AM


"I say kid since your mom has to take you everywhere which means you are under 16 which means you dont have a job which means it is unlikely that you would have enough money to pay for all this."

Read the whole story before you start to get all cocky. If you had read the sotry you would know the reason his mom takes him places is because she is making him go because he threw up on his grandmother. The reason he doesn't have a job is because he got fired for acting crazy all the time and not coming to work. Actually now that I think about it he didn't ever actually get fired, he just stopped going in and his boss was real mad.

If you had read the whole story you would know everything you just said was wrong.

Posted by: Sega Slayer at August 2, 2003 02:48 AM


Oh and the website thing... I have a website too and I'm sure he could scrape up the money if it was important enough.

Posted by: Sega Slayer at August 2, 2003 02:49 AM


That Bdoughty guy is a little ass troll.

If you waste precious minutes of your life on that site you realize he is a complete egomaniac the way he rules over the board, locking topics and telling people to go post on "official" discussions. Gimmie a break, the best discussion boards let people go and only lock obvious trolls to keep things from turning into a fight.

Who cares about that site anyways, they always get the news last.

Posted by: Operation Sucks at August 2, 2003 10:39 AM


"even if he is 19 he cant afford this site, do you have any idea how much this costs. Let's see, with all this I would say at least 500MB storage with monstrous bandwidth lets say 10 GB. They are using Datapipe.net as their host(quick WHOIS search) which is one of the best, but probably the most expensive. Their lowest plan with 500MB space and 35GB transfer costs $99/month. That's $1200 a year."

Yeah, but he's not going to keep the site up for a year. It's only been up for 1 month so far.

Posted by: at August 2, 2003 04:26 PM


Punked him? Doughty looked like a little bitch in that e-mail!

Posted by: good_ol_gil at August 2, 2003 06:33 PM


BD Doughty always has his finger in his pussy.
He is a bitch.
He was sure to watch your vids and shit, then he banned your IP.
What a dick sucking internet fag.
Yeah, and bring your pussy ass to Oak Cliff, and I will show you a real banning fuck boy.

Beta 7 , fuck them pussies at OS, I think BD's mom runs that site, so he has to watch out for any poster with a diff opinion.

Posted by: Okayplayer at August 2, 2003 10:19 PM


I'm saying that money banned him for no good reason, then he emailed him back clown'in him!!?

You know what Beta, Fuck'em. If he doesn't want to hear about the beta version, then don't give him the final when it goes gold.

Posted by: QU_Kingpin at August 3, 2003 01:22 AM


LOL, that sounds typical of BD. He has banned many people from OS, including myself. I decided to start my own forums, which IMO are much better than OS. BD would really never let the whole banning go. I'm probably the person he hates the most out of anyone he's banned.

His attempts are comeback are weak, and not funny at all.

In a thread, I said I was a pretty good basketball player, stating I could jump high but I had no D. So he attempts to poke fun at that. He finds a picture of a little 5 year old dunking on a little 5 foot hoop, saying "Hey you won't need any D with these ups".

The guy is a clown, he has many many many haters all over the Sports-Gaming internet. I would actually feel sorry for him if he wasn't such a jackass.

Anyway, no big deal banning you for "getting boring" is typical. If you want, you can come over to our forums. http://forums.sports-gaming.com

Posted by: Mike at August 8, 2003 09:32 PM


Yea, BD is a fag. You guys should come chill with us over at SGN. The link is http://forums.sports-gaming.com and I think you guys would have fun there. So come on and join, and there, we try not talking about pieces of trash too much. It's peaceful. By the way, I'm BZ_57 there. Go there. Have fun.

Posted by: Basel at August 8, 2003 11:24 PM


Beta, I noticed you were a member at our site, however it says you are unregistered. What happend?

Posted by: Mike at August 9, 2003 12:07 AM


Meh, no point in being there when there are admins who just love to flex their power because they love to be right.

I personally hate pricks like that. Wether your lying or not, the guys being a dick.

Posted by: at August 26, 2003 09:17 PM




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