Quote - "I've done those things you tell me will get an instant ban from the forums. And you know what? I've never been banned."

You must be misreading, I said deletion, meaning deletion of the post. Or removal of the thread. I never said anything about an instant ban.

Sorry, my apologies :(

 I've done those things you tell me will get a post deleted or removal of the thread - and my posts are still there, and the threads are still there, they haven't been deleted.

I'm pretty sure I've probably done whatever you said got you banned too, without being banned.

Quote - Actually I was banned for starting a thread complaining about the censorship.

Sounds about the kind of thing I'd do immediately after a post got deleted, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to find I've done that. Possibly even in a slightly heated manner.

Context is king - context or details. Because the exact same things you say will bring doom down on anyone's head if they tried it - they happen. Nearly every day, it sometimes seems like. So unless there are exceptional circumstances - like a moderator going rogue (this is the net, that happens) there's something different in the case of people whose posts are vanishing, or who are getting banned from the forum. Something which isn't being relayed in the tales of woe.

But I think I need to get out of here. Because this, already, is too anti-someone for my tastes. In this case it's anti manstanley, but that isn't the point - I can't see that it will reveal anything to anyone, so I'm wasting everyone's breath :(