I don't think they got banned for being a number. If someone else makes the account "Daravae2" and misbehaves, why would I ask if someone with almost the same name as me got banned? Either way, asking why an account got banned isn't going to get you an answer since that information is reserved for site staff. And if anything people are just gonna do useless speculation in this thread because they don't know the specifics. Bottom line is that if you don't misbehave, I can't see a reason why you would be banned for being a number.
I guess Super Metroid is small and unknown.
World Records are not meaningless, arbitrary things.. What a silly thing to say.
Getting a World Record is a big achievement for a ton of people. The problem is that it's often being used a tool to measure success which ruins the achievement on it's own. Cool achievements, like speedrun World Records are not suddenly more important when you have more of them. They are only important because they are the fastest time ever achieved in a game.
Unplug the cable lmao
Uhm hello everyone? I think I would actually be cool if I had the number "1" behind "WR" on my profile instead of "0". Now I'm just some speedrunning loser wtf but .. imagine if I just had that magic "WR: 1" on my profile.. wow.. hot damn..
Was talking to the person above you relaxxx
Of course there are others. And people should be able to identify how they want. Don't worry so much about people abusing a textbox. There are a thousand places on this site you could abuse a textbox. That's why you have moderation, profanity filters and other things to combat abuse. And I mean, if it gets out of hand, then the site learned that it's users are not yet ready for such freedom. Which I really don't expect.
Why doesn't speedrun.com allow me to identify the way I want to be? An Apache helicopter.
I don't really think it will. Also a handful of your explanations are simply doubling up on what the words themselves actually mean:
[quote=Ruby]Generic Puzzle/Typing Games -> refers to puzzle webgames eg. Snoring, or a type speed race site, eg. Typeracer. Geography games -> explains itself. Vocabulary/Math and other Educational games -> games primarily designed to provide educational assistance. Quiz games -> games that just ask questions, eg. Higher or Lower. Generic Sudoku Solvers/Minesweeper Remakes/Rubik's Cube Solvers, etc. -> explains itself. Non Video Game Activities -> Requesting anything that does not involve a video game. [/quote]
Some of the implications are already pretty self-explanatory. See, even if you would list things a hundred times or try and break down every word that extensively, we still can't make people read or even think about anything that is actually listed there unfortunately.
It's known that some pages can spit out this error and Elo is looking for a fix.