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(11-24-2015, 09:14 PM)Johnny Cupcakes Wrote: Yikes...that's the first I've seen that. Drama extraordinaire!

It's super unfortunate that DJS; one of the best posters on these forums was banned for what looks to be unjust reasons (I may not know the whole story though). this place is great, but the moderation seems incredibly heavy mist of the time.  Now I'm off to cower in the corner like an abused puppy.

Marvin?

(11-24-2015, 09:54 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The moderation on this board is not more strict or unjust than the mothership; in fact, it is most likely the opposite. It's just on the other boards they would not entertain people whinning about it. They would simply delete their posts and ban them again. I've seen Denny ban folks simply because he could. Bannings/suspensions here are just more visible for a couple of reasons and one is Board Membership size. We are a much smaller community, so when someone gets banned it makes news.

Hell there's a mod on this very board that was banned about 35 times on the old boards. 

As for DJS/GHB/WDW: believe what you want. 

Speaking on specific instances by the mod team is generally in bad taste. But I will say again, the staff here — in my opinion — bends over backwards to avoid just banning someone. Normally, there's at least one warning (usually more than one) before a suspension. Some folks respond to a simple 'hey, could you stop doing _________.' Other folks just shrug it off and keep doing it.

At the end of the day, all of the moderation team is trying to make this an enjoyable place for Bengals fans to talk about football. I think that allows us to be more flexible than the mothership. Even to the extent of allowing people to publicly criticize our decisions. We were all posters on the old board and know how frustrating it was when something happened and we couldn't even discuss it as a community.