Banned from digitalpoint
After being a mamber of digitalpoint for two years I finally got banned for getting too many infraction points. Infractions are issued on a scale of one to possibly five and apparently if you get just 10 points you are banned from the forum.
If a moderator is having a bad day he’ll slap you with five infraction points, which is half of the total required to get banned. Frankly that is excessive, and there should be oversight to prevent a mod from issuing that many points at once. Worse, infraction points take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time to expire. I have infraction points from last year still waiting to be cleared which gives you an idea of how demented the system is.
There are many other problems but those are the most pressing ones.
With regard to internet moderators abusing their powers this is nothing new. A moderator’s job is to ensure that posters follow a set standard of rules; not create arbitrary rules or bend the rules just cause they are having bad day or to fulfill a power trip.
Fortunately there are other webmaster forums which don’t have such strict rules. In spite of these obtuse policies digitalpoint will contiue to prevail as the number one webmaster forum. Hopefully smaller webmaster forums will be able to establish a foothold, but it sems that isn’t going to happen.