[Minerva]

Okay, here are some of the main reasons of banning.

A: Persistent discriminatory remarks, such as religion, culture, and race.

B: Persistent use of offensive words.

In both cases, "persistent" is the key word. If anyone make one remark, the member will get warning or caution from moderators first.

C: Use forums for their advertisement.

There are people who join here just to put ads on. For example, have a membership, post in the every forum available about his/her website, especially the site similar to GB, then leave.

It is allowed put ads in our sig, but Buck does not allow (and rightly so) the forum to be used as advertisement board. It is different from suggesting other sites' addresses, ie. mods sites for certain games.

D: Persistent use of alter-egos.

When this site was much younger, there was a time some members had alter-egos for fun. Regulars knew whose alter-egos, and took them on for laughs. However, as it often the case, some people use it wrong way, ie post more offensive comments and aggregate others with different id to avoid getting him/herself cautioned or banned. Hence, Buck decided enough was enough and all alter-egos were forbidden.
Anyone who created alter-egos after that were banned, including their main ID.
In case anyone needed to make a new id (such as lost id), contact Buck.


From top of my head, those were the main reason of the banning order. As everyone should know, they are in the forum rules, still, people always get curious to know these things, I suppose.

There are a few cases of uncategorized reasons, but those are rare and not particularly nice to talk about, not to mention it'll be long, long stories. Just think, if the above reasons were not enough, it must be something really wrong.