How I got kicked out of PAL Discord Channel

I believe that this is not something that happens often or Steemians don't talk about it. I got kicked out of PAL due to some unforeseen events.

A brief intro of PAL

PAL stands for Peace Abundance Liberty and house one of the most popular services in the name of minnowsupport and banjo. If you use the $upvote command in the # upvote channel on Discord, your post will get upvoted by minnowsupport and banjo. For more infor on how this works, check here

The aftermath

Last week around Monday, I wrote my post as usual and went on Discord to promote it on the # post-promotions of channels that I am a member of. To my disbelief, I couldn't find the PAL channel among my channels list. I tripled check so as not to make any mistake but for sure it was not there. Maybe I left the server by mistake the night before so I asked a fellow Steemian to send me an invite.

I tried the link he sent and I get an invalid message. Even today while writing this, I tried the link directly from Hive account@minnowsupport page but still the same result.

It took me a few days to realise what had happened and I have been checking every now and then to verify if the ban was temporary or permanent.

How it happened!

By now you are all curious as to what might have caused a Steemian to be kicked out of such a great channel!

It all started on Saturday the 16th of September when Hive account@doushoum contacted me about an issue he was having. As usual, he waiting for some 30 minutes before using the $upvote command on the PAL discord channel. However, Hive account@minnowsupport didn't come to upvote his post.

I advised him to try it again on Sunday but the problem was still same. So to help him out, or so I thought, I used the $upvote command for his post in the PAL Discord channel. After a few minutes, all was great and Hive account@minnowsupport came to upvote his post and thus everyone was happy except the moderators of PAL!!!

How I know this was the reason? Well while talking with Hive account@doushoum during the week and explaining what happened to me, he was laughing at me. I asked him why and then he replied that he also got kicked out of the channel. This is how I knew that this must be the reason. I was not allowed to use the upvote command on another person's post.

This is not something that I had done once, I have probably done it some 3 times before they kicked me out. From my perspective, I was helping a fellow Steemian who is starting and need those initials push to be able to swim by himself.

But if we look at the other side, the people running PAL were right to remove me from their channel. If every other Steemian starts doing this then we could use this system to write 20 posts and get other Steemians to use Hive account@minnowsupport to upvote all of the posts of 1 person. This defeats the purpose of Hive account@minnowsupport and the rule that you can use the service once every 12 hours.

I haven't tried contacting them for various reasons and I don't feel any grudge for what has happened.

Morale of the story: READ THE MOTHER FUCKING RULES OF ALL THE CHANNELS AND ABIDE BY THEM 😈

What now for me?

First of all, I would like to say that I have been using the PAL services ever since I joined Steemit. The PAL community has been really awesome in helping us minnows and I have reached where I am thanks partly to PAL.

When one door closes, another one opens. Like Hive account@worldclassplayer has stated, the world is a playground and we are here to play. New adventures are starting for me on Steemit which is making me coming out of my comfort zone. I am an introvert by nature and interacting with people, even if it is behind a pseudo name, is difficult for me.

New fun are starting, new paths being explored and new opportunities up for the grabbing. Don't know where my Steemit adventure is going to take me but so far it has been a hell of a ride and am loving every little part of it 😎

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