OTW is inconsistent because he is looking for attention.
Where he falls short, is in arguing points that make sense. Bless him though, he does have a greater repertoire and amount of life experience than the likes of droopyneck and more base-level trolls entirely lack.
Mods can't ban people like the BL olden daze (before my time).
Senior staff are issued with a banhammer, but it is reserved for "special" cases (spammers, alts, etc). Being a smod, i can - and do - ban people.
If you knew me and my beliefs, they are largely "anti-authoritarian", anarchistic, even.
But without some forms of organised regulation, this site would be an unworkable mess.
Rather than being bluelight law enforcement, i prefer to think of it as sanitation work. How well does society function when nobody is there to clean up the rubbish; take away people's domestic refuse?
Without the "authority" to issue bans and infractions, we'd be buried in garbage; spammers, scammers, shills, posters intent on pushing commercial, political or other dubious agendas unrelated to BL/HR - and the useful information would be buried under piles of noise.
I ain't mister plod, i'm more of a garbage man, taking out the trash, so to speak. Most of you would probably be surprised how much spam and assorted crap we have to deal with.
Consider me a
dustman. If we didn't ban spambots, bluelight would be unworkable, basically.
The incrimental system of bans is altogether different. Whatever your opinion of them, or how they are issued - people tend to "earn" them, one way or another.
It's arguably a far more equitable system than staff collectively deciding "do we like this person?" - and if not, removing them from the site. Why
arguably?
Because people seem argue and complain about the way it is used.