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Originally Posted by atakdog
FWIW, something I've noticed in my two weeks here: I have never seen an internet forum, dedicated to any subject, that exhibited anything near the prevalence of banning and thread deletion that this one does. I wonder: is this because poker mavens are far more likely to misbehave than those interested in every other subject that I regularly look into, or, hmm, do you think it exemplifies a moderating culture that encourages heavy-handedness?
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Originally Posted by kipin
The latter.
Something that neither of you has mentioned, that is probably more of a factor than either of these:
This forum, unlike most others, has a sub-forum that seemed specifically dedicated (until recently, at least) to encouraging banned users and their supporters to bitch and moan on their behalf and trash the moderators of the site. We also have, for whatever reason, at least one forum that has been created with the apparent purpose of glorifying childish behavior, out of which has arisen a subculture of people who think it's clever to spell everything wrong, post sexually-oriented pictures of children and animals, and then get all self-righteous when a moderator imposes even the slightest limits on their pointless and vulgar little games.
So, in other words, the reason so many people seem to get banned on this site is because we have ATF and BBV. The bad behavior AND the heavy moderation arise because someone decided it would be a good idea to allow, or even encourage users to act like ******s.