today "BFL - CEO" was banned because he offered to pay 1.1 btc for each of 7 ads in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=284843.0

For offering a bid in the auction, without warning, the user was permanently banned.

Fwiw I think it's pathetic that the site admin treats the community with such disrespect. 


Now I know why:


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255136.msg2719425#msg2719425


Theymos is king of the bitcoin forums and if you don't like it you can be banned too.

I dare you to challenge him.  You too will be banned.  Not by vote of a council.  Not because of a broken rule.  Only because Theymos has the ego and the ability. 


The narcissism is weighing him down.  For all our sake I hope he drowns soon.