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John2290 said:
Raven said:

That investment is a two-way street. If your "investment" into a forum as a new user is spreading (in this case fictitious) FUD and cheap trolling from the get-go, how can you expect to be embraced in the community. That's the purpose of moderations anyway, if there was any doubt about the conduct expected of your behavior, then the ban/moderation is an obvious indicator that the behavior isn't wanted or acceptable. Take a second to familiarize yourself with the rules and move on.

If this was the mentality for sites like twitter or Reddit in the early days they'd all be completely barren.

That's not even a counter to my argument, it's basically a "what if" statement. Having moderated here in the past, I've experienced first-hand that out of control toxicity on this forum caused valuable users to leave and not come back.