Guys, there are a lot of myths about the bans on Discord in this thread. Let me present some hard facts.
There are not hundreds upon hundreds of people banned. The actual number is slightly north of 200.
Out of those, near half have been sent away for posting pump & dump groups, spamming referral links and similar. We will not let our huge community become a space for advertisement profit.
Out of the rest, most of them thoroughly deserved losing their privilege, with multiple instances of physical threats and death threats, or being truly nasty to other Discord (and/or team) members.
Then finally there are some who got unlucky with circumstance and probably deserved to get another chance. But with 2000 members online at any given time, some times discussion move fast, escalates quickly and the moderators are only human.
I have let multiple people back in upon request, and any such request is taken to the team for re-evaluation if I am not sure you deserve that second chance. Should you feel part of that last group, please DM me here and I will do what I can to be fair.
Let’s address the point at hand. As I mentioned banning people for spamming or threatening another user is perfectly fine, no one would question that policy. It’s standard in any forum. But since you bring that up, it’s too bad former team leaders felt it necessary to lie that they had been receiving death threats however, while the rest of the team went along with that lie to get more emotional buyin. (That’s fully documented for all to see... see Evan’s screenshot)
What is unique about the B3 discord (unlike this one) is the banning of people for asking legitimate questions or even making comments. While you try to make it seem as if this is a mistake to ban such people, I can assure you its absolutely the policy of the B3 admins to ban people.
Anyone who ever saw Evan in action knows this for sure.. He even banned Oregongreen, a community leader... really that was a mistake.. no that was deliberate.. He banned left right and center.. often without cause.
The CEO of Cryptopia asked some questions... oh he got caught up in the shuffle.. no he asked hard questions and the community cried FUUUUUDDD BANNNN as they always do when they hear things they don’t like and some admin.. probably Evan again banned him.
I saw personally Limxtec tell the community the project is not in any way associated with bitsend and bitcore... because it isn’t.. Those projects are run by limxtec. This one is now separate and is run independently. He was upset the admins tried to use this as a selling point for the project... Again the community cried.. lier ... ban him... no time to listen, learn or discuss, and so didn’t they like what they heard and banned him.. As you can see this isn’t an odd mistake.. this is deliberate and it is systemic. Anyone in the forum know this. If I suggest there isn’t a strong vision for the project.. It needs one beyond a list of features.... immmediately.. I get... FUUUUDDD... BANNNN.. This is how it is in the discord chat.
Those are the facts, and anyone just has to go there to see for themselves. You can’t have an honest conversation there. Instead of defending the forum, improve it, make it more open to debate and differing opinions. You as admins set the tone. You might think we are against the coin, no we are actually trying to improve it and the community.