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View submission: NoLibertarian Banned from Reddit
I don't think it's even that. There's no rule that says you have to contribute constructively to a conversation (but you can downvote it). He probably violated their rules against spamming, vote manipulation, or getting around moderator bans but there's no way to know for sure.
Comment by hblask at 23/02/2011 at 22:04 UTC
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I think of a site like this as if it were a real conversation. If you had some guy at a party at your house whose ONLY conversations with the other guests was to attempt to piss them off -- not engage them in controversial subjects, but just to piss them off -- you would ask them to leave and never invite them to your house again.
I have parties and people disagree, sometimes quite vociferously. There's nothing wrong with disagreement, and those people are welcome back. It's all a matter of degree; NoLib was way, way, way over the line. I'm sure he had enough T&C violations that they didn't need this particular reason, but I think it would be, if I ran the site.
Another forum I am on has mods with full ban power, for whatever they want. They allow vigorous discussions, opinions from every point of view, and even the occasional drive-by troll, but overall, the level of discussion is very high because everyone knows, play nice or you are gone.