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Originally Posted by RedHawk12
Did we ban a couple of long time posters for having different opinions about players that the mob really like? Geez with the censorship...when did the mods become the propaganda police.
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It's pretty simple:
1. Two days ago we received six complaints from posters about Love which practically begged for him to be suspended. He has a pretty well-worn MO, and has been warned and suspended for precisely the same behaviour in the past. As a general rule, if a poster is banned it is because of an established pattern of behaviour and subsequent prior warnings or infractions.
2. Canada Matt was suspended for posting a link to another discussion forum which itself has for a long time been discouraged. But beyond this, Canada Matt was instigating posters to read a discussion on another site that was explicitly disparaging to this community, the site owner, and the moderation team. This goes with a frequent recent history of in-thread complaints from him on this site about CP and the moderation team. As with Love, Canada Matt has been incited for previous similar infractions, and been reminded before to make use of the "Report Post" feature to lodge his complaints, or to PM the Mod account directly with questions or concerns.
We don't make it a practice to explain all of our disciplinary decisions, but I thought it important here to remind everyone of a couple of things: First, while "trolling" is not simply defined it is something that we continue to want to discourage. It's a lot more than merely holding a different opinion, and when it starts to interfere with the productivity of discussion it is a problem. It is also fairly complicated to deal with. Second, we have cracked down in the last year on in-thread complaints about the site and how it operates. There is a post-reporting feature. There is a
Help & Suggestions Forum. There is a Moderator account that accepts private messages. Members need to make use of these resources if they have problems or concerns, and abstain from littering the Boards with them.
So with that, let's move on from this here and get back on to the topic of Monahan's awesomeness.