Who has the power to BAN you from the site

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nordlead said:

Flow said:

ssj12 said:
locked do to topic attacking a head mod's decision.

don;t post something like this again or else you will be at the end of my ban hammer.

Why mods are threatening us when we question bans now? Isn't that the reason that banned people posts are appearing now? So we can judge if a ban is fair?

 

Isn't the first time it happened, looks like a dictatorship.

This is a dictatorship, just because it is on the internet doesn't mean you have any say in how the site is run. ioi is kind enough to listen to what the users have to say, but it is still his site.

Ding Ding!

This is absolutely a dictatorship, these people are put in charge and what they say goes. We have no recourse and the reason people continue to come & post is because we have reasonable overlords who don't abuse their power (too much ).

You can debate them in a topic the same as anyone else, the only difference is that they have the added responsibility of swinging down the ban hammer on those who get out of hand. In the case of CaptainPreference he had it coming for a lot more than just that post, in fact I think I counted 3 other posts that were ban worthy given his history as a troll on the site.

Ironically I was reporting him for one of those other posts as DKII was banning him, and I PM'd DKII hoping he would extend the ban...which he didn't because he is a nice overlord.  You don't see me making a thread about each offense and wanting people's opinions about whether he should have been banned longer...so why should we have the opposite?  

If you have a problem just PM the mod, they are quite reasonable if you are.