I have heard stories of people getting banned from their forum for no reason. Comes off that they are being shady and don't want to give out too many airdrops. Like some one else on here said it definitely feels like more of a cult.
No offence friend, but looking at your ranking here.. and the fact that you "heard stories" makes me think you did not take the time to have your own research on it.
Indeed, people got banned, but the way they reacted on that ban was only a result of their own behaviour...
It is thanks to those bans that the DeepOnion community manages to keep a solid group of "followers/believers/investors" ... you would be surprised if you would have seen the amount of "new people" that were entering and started to spam about DeepOnion. Allthough the idea was good to enlarge the community, because the bigger the community is.. the more visibility it gets & the more other people can hear about it, the approach to make that happen had to be finetuned... which happened a few days ago when the mod/dev team noticed it was going the wrong way.
As said before... every, but seriously, EVERY project needs mouth to mouth publicity, visibility on different media, to become bigger & be heard.
I can't imagine that a project would not be allowed to put some new features in the spotlight just because others were not happy they were no longer allowed to be a member..
And to react on the Airdrop part : DeepOnion planned 40 airdrops, for which that half has already been completed... unfortunately some of the people that received those airdrops indeed started to dump those onions for hard cash.
Tell me, is this the reason way you support a project? Those banned people were the ones destabelizing the whole project by massive dumping... and it's kinda logic you don't need that kind of people in a project.