So there is no way to screen these shill posts with technology? I know I personally never made a shill post.
So an Admin can suspect shilling and just drop the ban hammer on a hunch? So our admins operate by the science of "feeling" ??
Edit: I am sure I could write a script that predicted within 95% accuracy what was a self-posted-shill and what wasn't. So If I can do why hasn't the forum???
Who says we dont have that already? And the reason why you don't get a message saying who banned you, is because moderators would then have to deal with people hounding that constantly about nonsense. The explanation is there, it says you were banned for spamming. Bans and post deletion by moderators are screened by the admins, if moderators make wrongful post deletions/bans, they aren't moderators anymore.
*edit* and no, the thread isn't unlocked in 5 days, just the ban is up.