Quote from: theymos on August 14, 2013, 11:44:27 AM

Quote from: Anduck on August 14, 2013, 05:52:59 AM

Banned for trolling? But it's different when you're VIP-donator?

Matthew donated 10 BTC. There have been several VIPs and Donators who were banned (eg. Goat) or scammer-tagged (eg. pirateat40, cablepair).

That is censorship. Why are you NOT supporting free speech? How is Matthew any more a troll than Inaba?

How does censoring Matthew and not censoring Inaba help the community in ANY way?

Surely you cannot believe BFL is legitimate... or your buddy TF's illegal ponzi scheme and unregulated bank. Of course those guys advertise. Personally I find it disturbing that you show TF with positive default trust and you still allow both he and Inaba to advertise.... yet you ban Matthew who is a friend to the community.

Your censorship model CLEARLY favors the bitcoin millionaires over the community. You are now acting just like any government favoring those who benefit you while crushing any opposing view that doesn't fit with your model of capital redistribution. Just like the ignore button favors shutting up the vocal.

Your lack of a 'support' button and only an option of an 'ignore' button causes the entire community to have negative feelings about vocal posters (like matthew) and these people never get to see all his followers. I'm confident a 'support' button would glow even brighter than his 'ignore' button.

You are gaming the system and specifically shutting down vocal members in favor of those who never say anything controversial. Why do you fear free speech so much? Clearly you are not an American because we WORSHIP free speech.

You are acting no differently than the governments who wish us to use their FIAT, no different at all. No different from Assad who would rather kill off his population than allow dissenting views in Syria. It makes no sense to ban someone for expressing their ideas and not ban known scammers like Inaba.

My two cents.