The fact that theymos went as far as to sticky this thread which is yet another pathetic lie (on par with the XT is an altcoin fallacy) shows how fucking miserable he is.
There is no banning or blacklisting. It's a form of DDos protection.
This thread is not stickied.
You're right, it's on top and looked like to be stickied as the wider line below separates them from the rest. Sorry.
It's still questionable, why this thread wasn't moved to the Altcoin section. Since according to theymos, we are talking about an Altcoin here.
Maybe it is, because he is hypocrite, but who knows?
This is a threat to the core values of Bitcoin, it's important for Bitcoiners to know before electing to support a BitcoinXT fork. If BitcoinXT forked with the code it has now it might ruin the Bitcoin market, so it's obviously quite relevant.