I based my statement off my observation of the forum over the last 5+ years here.
Shelby has been here for 5 years also. I bet he was online in the forum more than you. Why are you so special?
I read what both sides claim and we all have to choose which side they feel[I must choose for everyone what] is right.
FTFY
Based on my personal experience here in the forums and the information I've read so far I am inclined to believe his constant breaking of rules is the reason for his ban and not the conspiracy theory side.
Nobody has answered his repeated up-thread What rules?
Bottom line is you totalitarians think he is incorrigible and you want to control him but you do not apply the same control to all users of the forum (as he has documented up-thread).
And you are unwilling to submit to decentralized moderation stored on a decentralized ledger. And thus
bitcointalk.org must be disintermediated, because as you can see (as Shelby warned you last year) the spam is getting worse and the
users are growing weary of the junk posts.
The forum is dying. Volume of new spam accounts is not an indicator of growth. Observe what happens.
(I don't generally buy into a lot of conspiracy theories, but that's me).
You mean you allow yourself to be manipulated by those who control the propaganda. Quite objective of you. Kudos. I should learn to be a fully-docile, unobtrusive sheep like you so I will not be banned by the gatekeepers!
The
tall poppy syndrome.