There was an instrument of torture that was a ban alternative that SLOWED DOWN BANNED users rather then just cutting them off totally.
But that just made them madder when their bans expired, and they came back in madder than when they went out. 
I seem to remember, a long, LONG time ago, and it might be now, on different forum software, we had either a super mod or administrator, that did not especially care for me.
Wiki:
"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions and other controlling bodies."
Long ago, the super mod. or administrator that put me on a governor, and deleted many of my posts, sometimes for political reasons, was this very intelligent, but highly political guy, I don't know much about him, his name, was called, something like, "The Doctor IS in."
Most times, he wasn't too bad, but he held some deep, deep internalized pain, and would get raging drunk on the weekend. I have always had the opinion since those days, that mods and administers should notify folks when they are acting as users, or staff. I know I am pretty much alone in that POV. But then, if the site doesn't make anyone like Toro or miketx a mod? I think we should be good.
When this Doc would get all liquored up in the evening, (he was Jewish,) not that I care, because a lot of my family and friends are, but he was a super Zionist, who held the belief that Gentiles, any one of color were, "less than," and he made no secret of it. He also believed that any non-Jewish women were just there to screw around with, use, and leave. A really loathsome sort of cad.
He would use a lot of Yiddish, or Hebrew, most of which, a lot of the regular membership, if they were not Jewish, did not know. This site tends to be very friendly toward our minority membership, which I have no problem with. However, when he would insult members, use misogynistic language toward non-Jewish women, but be respectful toward Jewish women, and then, in other contexts, continually use the world "goyim," while claiming it was just fine, when he could use the word, because it did not necessarily have to be derogatory. I reminded him that gentile would suffice.
It reminds me of how we have a lot of "crackers," on here that will use the word "negro," when we all know damn well that has derogatory, demeaning, and ill intent by its use, and not in the neutral context.
BUT, nothing I could do would modulate his behavior when he was drunk on the weekends. He had a major chip, and was filled with anger and hatred. I would complain, and report, he'd censor, and edit my shit, blocking my posts, and, yeah, I got bans and that slowed down governor crap. I fought, not so much just for me, but for many, on the left AND the right, who had to deal with him when he was drunk.
. . . till, one day, I had a very VERY wise mod or admin. tell me something I have never forgotten. I wish I could remember the mod now. It might have been Will. Or CK.
It is this. FIRST, all of this is for fun, if you take all of this
THAT seriously? You are defeating the purpose of being here in the first place, because, you sure as hell aren't going to change the world or save anyone. And second, this is the community's sandbox, it is managed by the folks that put the mods and admin. here in the first place. All of us, and to a lesser extent, the owners. If you don't like it, after not taking the place too seriously, and you don't like the answers you are getting, go find somebody else's sandbox to play in. It really is, that simple.
The rules are pretty easy, and they a clearly spelled out. There really aren't many other places that have more free speech on the net than this. You can go look, I doubt you are going to find it. You should be happy you are a member here. The most free, most fair, most open place for speech on the net.
It is easier to try to find out why you are getting your posts deleted, and make a change, than it is to blame it on others.
I have had mine deleted, and I have never complained. It is always a case of, oops, I forgot what zone I am in.
