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I have created a legitimate bug report in the bug tracker. My comments have been deleted several times for no reason and my account banned.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8851

I have taken the following screenshots after it became clear someone is deleting my posts.

http://postimg.org/image/q0167t54n/
http://postimg.org/image/wuvom47nn/

The VLC bug tracker is not a kindergarten, it is a tool for the VLC developers and testers to work.

Playing the yes-no-yes-no game gets you banned. You had been warned.

Why were my comments deleted?

They were deleted because it is a legitimate bug report. He even deleted his warning message. Why? To reset the comment counter and get rid of the evidence?

Your comments were deleted to avoid cluttering the VLC timeline with your reopening mess. Topic closed.

No, they were deleted to suppress the truth and to enable the false accusation of abuse.

Congratulations, you have been banned from the forum too.

Congratulations, you have been banned from the forum too.

This is the most hysterical thread I've read in a long time. You should submit to Internet Fails.

HAHAHAHA supress the truth? this is a video player, not government!

HAHAHAHA supress the truth? this is a video player, not government!

Are you sure? VLC government is on a global scale trying to conquer the world, thanks to Alien Technologies...

I sincerely hope this is not as it appears. The guy's screenshots just show him reporting that a bug isn't fixed and isn't a duplicate. According to his comments, you gave him a warning of some kind, but reporting a bug isn't fixed is not a bad thing, and you deleted said warning. So it appears to any outside observer that you banned a guy for disagreeing with you.

I sincerely hope there's more to this than I see. The guy definitely has one point: if you think your warning and actions are justified, there was no reason to delete the warning. Lock the bug, ban the user, but leave the history so we know what he did and not to do it again. There's no legitimate reason to delete the warning. So it does make it looks suspicious.

This isn't concern trolling, either. I have a possible regression in VLC 2 that I want to report. But if it's SOP here to ban people because they report a bug isn't fixed, then I have no reason to help a project that bans people who they are trying to help, deliberately stirring up conflict.

I mean, based on what we see, the only "yes-no-yes-no" game being played happened because the guy thought he had a legitimate bug, and you didn't, so you kept deleting his comments. As it appears, if you'd have just left the bug open for others to report if there was a problem, nothing bad would have happened.

I already don't help out DOSbox or DeSuME because their developers are mean to their bug reporters. I hope that isn't the case here.

Nobody has ever been banned for reporting an invalid bug. People do get banned for playing yes/no games with the bug tracker.

And this bug was a duplicate and was already fixed.