User blog comment:MEffect Fan/New wiki skin opinion/@comment-217683-20101014085427/@comment-217683-20101014171201

And if they openly came out and said "We're banning people because they are advertising for another company" (though I fail to see how merely informing people of a move is advertising, but that's just me), it'd be another matter entirely. Instead, they claim that the people they are banning are making extreme threats and all that, and that all they are doing is banning a few troublemakers for the benefit of the community. Mighty convenient that the community benefits by them stifling their most vocal critics. All I'm saying here is that they are being disingenuous about what they are doing and why. You are correct, Dammej: they could be doing far worse, and from a business standpoint could likely justify it. But they could also be doing far better. For the life of me, I can't see the business sense in what they're doing. Piss off the people who make the sites that get the traffic that makes people want to advertise. Because that's smart...

And I think that's about all for this rant...