Chat problems

So i just tried to enter chat for my first. time. i clicked the geekshed thing and read it, and then when i went back to the chat page, it said i was banned from the channel #yoyoexpert. any possible explanations?

here’s a screen cap of what it looks like:


You’ll get that if your nick is longer than 14 characters. Try using SovietLocust or something instead

thanks!