Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts
Oh, everyone is crying over Hootie being banned for being Hootie. Cool. Whatever anyone thinks anyone else deserves or doesn't deserve doesn't really matter. This isn't a democracy. It's Kyle's board. And Kyle has some moderators who he has entrusted to run the board the way he wants it run. He's also given those individuals some leeway in order to accomplish that objective. If people don't like the way it's run, there are thousands of other boards they can post on.
tl;dr? If you don't love it, leave it.
|
We used to have votes on whether or not to ban someone who's primary offense was that he/she annoyed the hell out of a large group of posters. Memyselfi was the subject of several of those polls. She was way more unpopular than Hootie. She never lost a ban vote that I can remember. Back then, Phobia used to embrace the democratic nature of this community. Of course, now he's found god, developed a holier-than-thou self-image, and become a major hypocrite.
I know you want to keep your cool kid card with the inner circle, but I don't think you can justify Hootie's ban to yourself on the basis of legitimate rules (as opposed to the moderator protection rules and short leash special rules that Phobia has come up with lately). If Hootie broke a legit rule, it's a secret and secret rules and mysterious, seemingly arbitrary bannings are no way to run a message board either, IMO.