Hi. I am Highlight.

[gfm7175]

Something we can agree on. DP is awful...run like a gulag.

I got a warning for telling someone, "I disagree with you and do not like the way you are responding. I am putting you on ignore."

I left. If you get a warning for something like that...what possible chance is there for putting out your thoughts in a way that does not get you banned.

Bingo! Well said.

PoliticalForum has a quite similar feeling in that I have to be really careful about how I phrase things lest I get spanked by the mods. I haven't been temp banned on there yet, but I haven't posted there lately either. The mods there are close to temp banning me for breaking one of the rules too often (I think some flamebaiting rule?)

There's a reason why I post here much more often than anywhere else. Here, I don't have to mince my words.

 

[IBDaMann]

Yup, that all sounds VERY familiar. The mods couldn't get me on any of that stuff, so once I really got under Red's skin enough, he suddenly decided that I was a "sock account", made a public spectacle out of it, and the next day banned me for it. Like I said, I've never ever used a sock account (I've always been gfm7175, and ONLY gfm7175, on any forum that I've ever been on over the years).

Red just got mad at me and wanted me gone, and didn't have any legitimate "against the rules" reason to ban me, so he suddenly decided that I was "a sock account" (which is against the rules there) and banned me for it because it's an offense that other forum members can't verify for themselves. It's an easy and unverifiable way for them to instantly ban anyone who they don't like for whatever reason.

GasGuzzler and I were banned from YAP for being each other's socks. There's only one problem with that ...