Troll = one who rationally, perhaps occasionally with emotion, logically disagrees with Orbit Trap.  Orbit Trap is misleading when they say "trolls" are banned.  I know of at least three people who disagree with them, and are censored.  Why?  Because they do not want their readers to see the arguments.  If you notice, there are few, if any, comments to any of the posts for many weeks other than those they have banned, and none recently.  There are no comments agreeing with them that I can recall.  If you agree with them, I'm sure they will post your comment with haste.  The latest person banned was very rational, very civil, read the record, and was repeatedly belittled by Orbit Trap until they banned him.  Very professional, wouldn't you say?

Note the reference above to "free speech".  This is one of the several lies and distortions Orbit Trap promotes.  Never has anyone ever mentioned that their "free speech" is denied by Orbit Trap, and never has Orbit Trap given any quote to support this repeated claim.  How does one "heckle" a blog anyway?  Just another example of the "evidence" presented by Orbit Trap.  If you want to see a rational, though very blunt, analysis of their "evidence", please see this post.

Just remember that when you read Orbit Trap, bear in mind that a contest has one meaning, and one meaning only.  It just be a contest run by a rigorous set of rules, and there is no room for anything less than following the "professional rules of contest running" that some organization somewhere has written. 

Let me be clear, I did not say Orbit Trap wanted the contests to disappear.  I simply asked a question.  Are they better to exist, even if they exist in their present form?  The inference from the fuss Orbit Trap is making is that it is better that they cease to exist, rather than be run so "unprofessionally". 

Please do post your comments to Orbit Trap.  When they don't appear, please comment on my blog.