Hey Bill'O'Rights. I think I'm about to make sense again. Better get ready for it.
I wonder why the members here think the moderators and admins are out to ban people for no good reason. Think about the consequences if they did that.
Let's say the mods were on a witch hunt and banned all those people even though the people didn't do anything wrong. Now they're gone, no longer contributing to the forum.
That's pissed a lot of people off. Some will probably leave because of it. Now THEY'RE gone, no longer contributing to the forum.
If the mods did it once, they'll probably do it again. After all, if banning people for no reason is how they get their rocks off, they're not gonna stop with one session. Nope. These guys are serial banners.
So they do it again, and the newly banned people are gone, no longer contributing to the forum.
And that pisses more people off, and they too leave, no longer contributing to the forum.
See where I'm going with this? That would imply that the staff on this forum wants to kill off the forum's user base. That doesn't make sense. If you don't want to run a forum any more, you shut it down. You don't waste time and money paying for a site that you're trying to drive everyone off from.
It simply doesn't make any logical sense that the mods/admins would do what many of you are saying they're doing, because it would in essence be comitting forum suicide.
On the other hand, let's say we have a poster who's been a pretty good poster all along, but who gets a burr under his saddle about some percieved injustice. He starts writing about it in message forums, his journal, etc, where others can see it, and he does it using inflamatory language that's guaranteed to get a rise out of some if not most people. We've all seen the news stories after hockey / football games, how the mob mentality can start with one or two people smashing a bottle and suddenly an entire riot breaks out. Same thing could happen here. More and more people read these disparaging remarks about the forum and it's administration. They start jumping on the band wagon and soon a whole inferno of anger breaks out, engulfing the board and basically destroying the community that Halx and the others have worked to build.
That old phrase "nip it in the bud" applies here.