Quote Originally Posted by vitruvian View Post
Supposedly there was plenty of hate in the thread itself to justify a bunch of bans. As far as linking user profiles to actions outside of CBR itself, absent identical e-mails or other identifying information, I suppose it could be hard, but I'm not sure just how much responsibility Jonah should have taken on for activity outside of his site.

In any case, it seems like an overreaction, but I don't mind giving the new forums a chance. Now to see if there are any decent conversations started yet.
There wasn't anything worse than snarky responses.

Clearly, someone didn't like the issue being discussed and the journalist being challenged to begin with, as perfectly reasonable posts began disappearing, and it was only the dissenting posters who were being censored.

After a while, they stopped being deleted, but i think at that point the admin had given up and made the decision to reboot the whole forum, so the content of that thread didn't matter anymore.

/theory