Riobard's wournal of adventure and long-windedness

So pretty much - I woke up to this:

I didn’t really use my YouTube account all that much.

I had around 3 videos. Of those, only one will be missed. It wasn’t all that great, but let’s just say it served as a memory of a greater time.

Also, the ability to view “mature” videos (i.e: some episodes of “Is it a good idea to microwave this?”) will be missed… as well as the ability to comment on videos.

Really though, I never got into the whole video-blogger culture of YouTube. I’m just not interested on plastering a video of my face up on the world wide web every week!

I could just recreate an account - but I think I’ll fight for justice!

Yes, justice, I was wrongfully banned!

I (presumably) was banned for propagating a script that would spam YouTube with “unsubscribe” events fired off from client-side JavaScript.
This drops the “Subscribers” count on the affected user’s homepage.
I chose to drop a few thousand subscribers from the infamous “Fred” (“HEEEEEYYYY ITS FREEEEDDDD!”)

So - I don’t think I did anything wrong. Here’s why:

1. Fred deserved it. We all need a reality check once in a while. I think internet celebrities tend to forget that there are people out there who don’t like what they’re doing! Our ego’s all get a bit bloated some times. Really, we could all use a reality check from time to time.
2. … COME ON. IT WAS FRED!
3. The damage was completely superficial. All subscribers are still actually there, YouTube simply had to rebuild the subscriber count using referential data.
4. I think this once again teaches us the dangers of client-side scripting logic. I fucking hate JavaScript! Yes it’s very useful, and it can do some damn awesome shit - but there are so many pitfalls. Such as, you know, making it appear that Fred lost 1 million+ subscribers.
5. The “damage” was corrected without YouTube even entering maintenance mode. This should be evidence enough that there was no real damage being done here.
6. Allow me to reiterate. It. Was. Fred.
7. Free speech, I have rights, I’m a decent human being when you get to know me, blah blah blah.

I’m not gonna go in guns blazing, and admit to this outright. Because, for all I know, they might have banned me for some inane comment on a video!
But I think I’ll try and get my YouTube account back. Just for the lulz of it.

I’ll admit, I expected better from Google… they closed my account with no prior warning, and no letter has followed! I understand that sometimes they’re legally obliged to close an account, and they just don’t have time to say: “We’re closing your account in _x_ days. Sorry about that. You can appeal it here.” — but they should at least e-mail me and say: “Hey. Yeah. We closed your account. Sorry about that. You can appeal it here.” instead of logging me out of the service, and then informing me I was banned next time I log in!

What next, Google? Are you going to lock me out of my e-mail account?