The moderators tend to ban people only when they've been naughty. The rules around here are pretty clear, AFAIK; no warez, no porn, no bypassing the language filter, and no auction-style posts in FS/FT (there may be a few others, but if a newbie screws up, the mods will usually just lock the offending thread and warn him/her). If a person has done something wrong and got banned, they should be able to remember what thread it was in, anyway. The moderators seem to either send a PM or leave a message in the offending post when they ban somebody anyway (not that I want to find out from personal experience

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