Quote from: jdcarpe on Wed, 30 January 2013, 10:18:27 Quote GeekHack reserves the right to remove/ban any user, at any time, and for any reason. A temporary ban of 7 days will follow two warnings for the same type of infraction. Moreover, GeekHack takes no responsibility for the content of any of the messages posted on our Forums or of the authenticity of its authors. We reserve the right to edit and/or delete any posting for any reason and without prior notification or explanation to the author. Moderators and Administrators frequently review forum messages for those that are in violation of the rules. Any messages found to be in violation may be deleted without warning or explanation. And also please refrain from starting a thread or posting about any banned member as it isn't allowed.



Hiding behind static rules is meaningless when your goal is to build a community and you punnish those who's whole goal is to help provide a good one...



--I don't really know much about this community, but perma-bans and bans like this are what basically destoryed a couple of communites I was in before joining here.



to be fair, again i have no beef with DangWang, but honestly if the owners of GH want to run their forums strictly they can.His threadcrap welcome classified thread is straight up trolling and sticking it to the admins/mods of GH.He felt passionate regarding threadcrapping and his perceived injustices with the way classified is run, but to just say "f it" and do that is just immaturity imo.Anyway, in the end GH is a private forum, you aren't given free speech to do whatever you want. OCN runs their forums in a similar way, people sometime thing OCN mods/admins are too anal, but they do limit the amount of crap that is visible on the forums. It comes down to what GH wants to represent their forum as.We are all just users, we use the forum, but we really have no "power" to what the forum owners want to do.you can argue then ripster's ban was unwarranted either. did he not contribute majority of the wiki info? Or provide a good amount of resources and information?