Ah. I missed GoDeViLs post about how he was warned and infracted twice before the temp ban.

Still think it seems shortsighted on 2+2's part, but I wonder what was going through Daniel's head?

"Oh, they don't really mean this. They won't actually ban *me*. Oh, wait..."

For me, it's all about respect and appreciation. I understand full well that 2p2 is a business, and relies on sponsorship to keep going. Nevertheless, it's the community that makes 2p2 the biggest poker forum in the world.

It's certainly not a mod vs 2p2er issue. There is a great number of mods who have brought me (without knowing it) so much: Noah, Doug, Cry Me a River, SGT RT and certainly some that I am forgeting. By their contribution (videos, cotw, etc.) AND their interactions with regular posters, they demonstrate daily that they care and respect the simple members of the community. They make me feel at home.

Unfortunatly, not all the mod/admins are created equally. Even for a "low profile poster" like me, it is easy to feel that at any point given, you are one sentence away from a ban/perma-ban, wich, for me, shows very little consideration for the only thing that makes 2p2 what it is: it's member base.

DN's record for the last 10 years as a 2p2 member and his comments on QJ makes it pretty clear that he had no malicious intent when he posted a link to his vlog, in his vlog thread.

For me, if someone who is arguably the greatest poker ambassador in the world, with a spotless 10 year 2p2 membership can be treated in this manner, I can just imagine how much a nobody like me is far from being at home on theses boards.

Inb4 sarcastic "thanks for your contribution".

Then again, just because you opened an account 10 years ago doesn't give you the right to spam. if you read daniel's twitter this week, you realize that he's advertising A LOT for this event and he did the same here, even though he was PM'ed not to. rules are rules, and even though he is who he is, this just shows that mods don't treat people differently. if you do something wrong and it will create consequences, even if you are daniel negreanu.

I can even imagine members complaining if another famous pro did something similar but wasn't banned for it. I bet everyone would say "oh, he didn't get a ban because he's famous".

I just listened to the podcast and daniel agrees that he made a mistake but says he only felt bad because the way he was treated, he said he posted and was banned without a warning, even though later on he says he did get a warning but just didn't answer.

I'm with professionalpoker/mason in this one. I do like daniel but he just loves to complain every chance he gets. Get over it already, enjoy your 1 day temp-ban taking a bath in a chocolate-filled hot tub with two swedish models or something.

That actually worked for both of us.
You google DN and then click news and 2p2 gets mentioned all over the place. Most of the articles/opinion pieces were in our favor.

I want to thank those that commented positively about my appearance on QJ. Hopfully not to many will change their opinion after reading this.

You have to understand the thought process. He was infracted for the ultra spammy thread. A whois check showed that the site he spammed was registered by his agent, so either Daniel has a piece of the action or he is shilling for those that do. It turns out after questioning he does at least get a cut of the gambling action. No idea what else but that is immaterial.

You would think a person as smart as Daniel would then figure out that he shouldn't be making additional posts on this topic and especially post links to videos that start with 6 minutes of spam. At the very least he should reply to the infraction PM and ask what is permissible, a many others in the same position have done. But the only reaction to the infraction was to make two more posts in another thread on the topic, and then right or wrong, he watched that thread get deleted. Another clue of a problem yet still no questions from Daniel.

So when he made the two posts in two threads to his spam video, I'm like WTF? I had no idea if he was going to continue posting it. I started to wonder if that was really Daniel acting that stupid, acting with complete disregard of our policies or if someone from Poker Royalty had control of his account. So at 2am I made the call to temp-ban the account and then sort it out. I figured this could cause a storm so I immediately called Mason, who already knew of the previous two threads and let him know what I did and why. He concurred with the action.

Several times in print and on QJ he stated "What am I, a child that needs a time out?" or something to that effect. I had thought not and had hoped he could figure out that we don't tolerate spam due to the infraction, then deletion of the 2nd thread. But his reaction to this whole affair over a 1 day slap on the wrist and his inability to figure out the obvious, makes me wonder.