Mo wrote:Holy mother of God, Yi Long has risen from the grave. Hide the childen. And just kill the women because Yi Long will find them. I don't remember you being banned Yi Long, but I did hear about it once. I don't mind Teako but I really don't like the way Markgway was banned (once again I wasn't present when it happened). I remember around a decade ago, I went off on Markgway, I might have even gone after his mom it was that bad. But luckily Linn was the mod and he just gave me a light warning via PM. Linn was too nice of a guy. Nowadays it seems like you will get banned for anything on KFC. Teako says that he doesn't visit the forum very often, but all of a sudden he's banning a lot of people. I really don't want to speculate but I think he may be having a bad time in his life.
I don't think anyone should be banned unless it is an extreme circumstance, like someone posting personal information and really trying to hurt someone. I don't know how I never got banned. I did get banned once on the stunt people forum. And I deserved it.
It's pretty rare for me to get banned as well, although I managed to do so last week, when I was banned for a week for stating you can't really take the mods seriously anymore on a site, when 6 hours after a guy posted how he wished someone would 'do a Breivik' by driving a 500kg compost-bomb into an area in The Hague, which is filled with muslims, was still not moderated.
I mentioned this in a reply to a mod who was having a discussion about another poster who also had his complaints about how the site seems to turn more and more right-wing, and the mod just told him to report it to the mods, so that made me openly question if that would be worth the effort...
Anyway, got banned for a week for 'criticising' the website...(!) Somehow, some mods are quite a bit oversensitive... (which IMHO makes them the complete opposite of being suitable mods, but hey, that's just me....)
As far as Taeko is concerned, I truly hope he IS going through a terrible time in his life. He's a major asshole who enjoys abusing his powers, so fuck him. You know that saying how bad things always happen to good people. Well, perhaps this time bad stuff happens to a complete jackass.
There are very few legit reasons to BAN people from a site. Just spam-bombing, posting REALLY inappropriate pictures (gore crap and such), and some other stuff. But I always believe a good community regulates itself and corrects eachother, even in heavy emotional discussions. You might have a few flying of the handle, and then more reasonable voices will step in and hush things up a bit. Personally, I would just let that stuff play out naturally. Most stuff online can simply be 'fought' by discussing it rationally, reasonably, and most of all, simply out in the open.