> These sites like to promote themselves as communities, and to be banned from a community with no explanation, due process or right to appeal is awful. It can

> These sites like to promote themselves as communities, and to be banned from a community with no explanation, due process or right to appeal is awful. It can literally alter, even ruin lives. This, AFAIK, doesn't happen in the "real" world". I don't see why virtual communities get some sort of impunity. Sure it happens in the real world. A real world community like an HOA. It is a private property. A private property can really make any sort of rules (apart from a few choice rules that don't flag banning by the super community: the government) and roll with it. I think an independent open source community would do better. You sign up for it, make whatever damn fool rule you want for your own tribe. Roll with it.