Un-Ban Poster 'MyTurn2Raise'

[Grunch]

Source thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=9084287

In daryn's OP he did claim that QFTs were forbidden in that thread. In what may have been a poor decision, MT2R did QTF the OP.

I don't necesarrily disagree with daryn's right to enforce some punishment for the QFT, but I very strongly disagree that his rights should extend to prohibitting a valued strat poster from contributing to the strat forums.

OOT's relationship to the strat forums is unique. Many people -- myself included -- might make the argument that the heart and soul of 2p2 is the strat forums, and the other forums simply exist to support the viability of those forums. The relationship is a little more complex than that, since one of the main functions of 2p2.com is to generate revenue for 2p2 LLC. Because OOT has so much traffic, it has monetary value of its own.

However, that doesn't change the fact that the reason why the 2p2.com forums exist in the first place is to provide a place to debate poker strategy. OOT does not serve that purpose. Since OOT is tangential to the original function of the 2p2.com forums, and because the rules in that forum are often arbitrary or created with the sole purpose of increasing site hits (OOT Survivor, for example), the enforcement of OOT-rules should not impact a poster's capability to participate in strat forums.

The OOT '*' system was instantiated in recognition of the relationship between OOT & the strat forums, in fact. In that regard, the '*' and related systems are a good way to seperate enforcing OOT rules from enforcing strat participation. If the '*' system doesn't work for OOT anymore for whatever reason, then another system needs to be created so that when a valued strat poster QFT's an OOT thread, that poster isn't banned for 2 weeks.