LogFAQs > #986374199

adjl posted...

So the creator of the first topic got banned because somebody else made a post in the topic that (allegedly) pivoted the discussion to be more political, but the creator of the second topic did not get banned because somebody else didn't make such a post? We're deciding whether or not to punish topic creators based on the discussions other people choose to have in their topics?

Yes? Moderating based on the likely responses to your post has always been policy. It's literally in the definition of trolling, for example.

We're all assuming he was banned for the topic here solely because that was the topic we saw. That may not actually be the case, and short of a mod telling us as much we will probably never know for sure. The topic was locked well before being nuked, which may indicate a mod cleaning up remaining posts rather than that topic being the cause of the ban.