Quote Originally Posted by Parabuteo View Post
One chap got a lifetime ban for promoting Bradley Arms Ken

One of the mistakes is allowing posting on anything "NOT" to do with shooting as this is often where the idiots crawl out of the woodwork mate. Politics, Religion, The Police, Brexit (technically politics but annoying in its own right), The death sentence, all worth avoiding if you dont want "Like minded" people to join the peoples judean front. Oh yea, did I mention Black rifles and F class?

The other problem is that some come on here just for the above and dont (or rarely) shoot. I know the CSR shooter forum rubs some up the wrong way, but if you dont shoot CSR or the League, without a reasonable excuse, you will get culled.

If you would not say it in a room full of people, or face to face, dont say it online because your audience are much bigger than a screen.
As I said Chris I haven't seen anyone banned in a while and old history is just that, the old regime has been gone some years and some of those bans were shall we say, sought as a badge of honour?
The fact is the online world has changed and people have far more opportunity to band together in small like minded groups than they had a few years ago .
People like small like minded groups , ergo large forums with diverse membership become quiet as everyone migrates to their personal happy space.
It's possible that large forums will become extinct but for this one at least, I'm pretty certain it's not heavy handed moderation and arbitrary bans that will end it .