2p2
There is an interesting situation currently on 2p2. Mason mischaracterized the history of PaulP's banning. I didn't remember it quite correctly but ended up going back and looking at the history -- and then posed an aggressive question on it to Mason that questions whether or not he's lying. One mod took my post and merged in to an existing thread (giving my title "More on banning" to the entire thread, pun intended), which buried it at the end of a long, dying post. Not long after, Mat Sklansky jumped in and locked the thread. I convinced Mat that my question was a fair one and he permitted me to repost it, where it now stands in a new thread but ignored by Mason.
It's a little like junior high school.
All this came up because Mason banned Dan Druff, ostensibly because of the latter's involvement in neverwinpoker, which is entirely unmoderated.
More generally, this series of events demonstrates how moderation impacts the market. You can say pretty much anything you want on NWP (I don't know if they moderate commercial spam), so it's full of racism, avatars with explicit TS porn, etc.). 2p2 often has a fairly high degree of poker content but one occasionally runs across mod-as-dictator situations with the usual rules that apply there.
It's a little like junior high school.
All this came up because Mason banned Dan Druff, ostensibly because of the latter's involvement in neverwinpoker, which is entirely unmoderated.
More generally, this series of events demonstrates how moderation impacts the market. You can say pretty much anything you want on NWP (I don't know if they moderate commercial spam), so it's full of racism, avatars with explicit TS porn, etc.). 2p2 often has a fairly high degree of poker content but one occasionally runs across mod-as-dictator situations with the usual rules that apply there.