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banned from neocities
Oct. 3rd, 2023 02:27 pmi think i got banned from neocities this morning??? i refreshed the page, and was suddenly logged out. it didn't let me log back in, so i tried visiting my site to see if there was anything wrong with it--and it was gone! nothing there! i sent the link to my friends to have them double check it on their own devices. same result.
what happened was this: i'm very new to coding, and i like to learn by copying code from other sites and tinkering with it. i use a neocities html file that's entirely inaccessible from my website to add, remove, or modify parts of the code, then i run it to see what changed. this morning i thought i'd try to copy an entire webpage, which was over 10,000 lines of code, and see if i could reduce it to its bare essentials. i wanted to see how many lines of code i could remove until it became nothing but a template with some nonsense text on it, that way i could properly understand how everything worked.
then i started having problems saving the code and viewing it as a webpage. it became unresponsive, so i refreshed the page and was redirected to the neocities homepage. you know the rest.
i contacted support to tell them what happened and try to get my account back. hopefully it was just an issue of the spam filter malfunctioning and accidentally flagging me. but it's dicey because i did steal the code for an entire webpage, which could get me into some trouble for copyright. i also have "dyke" in my profile name, which could be flagged as hate speech.
hopefully i can get my account back soon! i've probably spent around 100 hours working on it.
aside from being banned from neocities and losing a lot of my work (i only backed up half of it), the rest of my morning has been crazy too--i missed the bus and was 15 minutes late to my doctor appointment, which they counted as a no-show and charged a cancellation fee for. rats! i was at the bus stop on time, but i missed the bus because i zoned out and didn't notice that it came and went without me. and it was unexpectedly hot outside! it's october, so i wore sweatpants.. only to find out that the weather today is perfect for a day trip to the nude beach. i was sweating a lot, and my phone started overheating so the battery drained really fast. i was worried that i wouldn't be able to call the doctor to give them a heads up that i'd be late, but they ended up calling me while i was on the bus to ask where i was. when i told them i'd be 15 minutes late, they cancelled my appointment. by the time i arrived, there were still 15 minutes left of my appointment! i'm not sure why they didn't let me see the doctor for those 15 minutes. the appointment really should not have taken that long, since i already saw a nurse to refer me to the doctor, and all i needed was a referral to the psychiatrist. why do i need to see a nurse to refer me to the doctor to refer me to the psychiatrist?! just let me see the psychiatrist, goddamn it!
all things considered, today hasn't been that bad though. i'm feeling okay because i feel close to god rn, and i've finally gotten enough sleep for the first time in a while.
update: my neocities account was restored!
what happened was this: i'm very new to coding, and i like to learn by copying code from other sites and tinkering with it. i use a neocities html file that's entirely inaccessible from my website to add, remove, or modify parts of the code, then i run it to see what changed. this morning i thought i'd try to copy an entire webpage, which was over 10,000 lines of code, and see if i could reduce it to its bare essentials. i wanted to see how many lines of code i could remove until it became nothing but a template with some nonsense text on it, that way i could properly understand how everything worked.
then i started having problems saving the code and viewing it as a webpage. it became unresponsive, so i refreshed the page and was redirected to the neocities homepage. you know the rest.
i contacted support to tell them what happened and try to get my account back. hopefully it was just an issue of the spam filter malfunctioning and accidentally flagging me. but it's dicey because i did steal the code for an entire webpage, which could get me into some trouble for copyright. i also have "dyke" in my profile name, which could be flagged as hate speech.
hopefully i can get my account back soon! i've probably spent around 100 hours working on it.
aside from being banned from neocities and losing a lot of my work (i only backed up half of it), the rest of my morning has been crazy too--i missed the bus and was 15 minutes late to my doctor appointment, which they counted as a no-show and charged a cancellation fee for. rats! i was at the bus stop on time, but i missed the bus because i zoned out and didn't notice that it came and went without me. and it was unexpectedly hot outside! it's october, so i wore sweatpants.. only to find out that the weather today is perfect for a day trip to the nude beach. i was sweating a lot, and my phone started overheating so the battery drained really fast. i was worried that i wouldn't be able to call the doctor to give them a heads up that i'd be late, but they ended up calling me while i was on the bus to ask where i was. when i told them i'd be 15 minutes late, they cancelled my appointment. by the time i arrived, there were still 15 minutes left of my appointment! i'm not sure why they didn't let me see the doctor for those 15 minutes. the appointment really should not have taken that long, since i already saw a nurse to refer me to the doctor, and all i needed was a referral to the psychiatrist. why do i need to see a nurse to refer me to the doctor to refer me to the psychiatrist?! just let me see the psychiatrist, goddamn it!
all things considered, today hasn't been that bad though. i'm feeling okay because i feel close to god rn, and i've finally gotten enough sleep for the first time in a while.
update: my neocities account was restored!