(March 29, 2015 at 3:24 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: ...
It doesn't matter if one thinks it's fair, whether one thinks we're biased, or any other such nonsense. ...
Yes, exactly. It does not even matter if there are posted rules or not. If, in my private home, I wish to exclude someone, I may do so. I don't need a set of rules to do this, and I do not need to explain myself to anyone who is excluded. Private individuals do not have a right to enter my home, or remain there against my will. If I allow them to enter my home, they are guests, and may remain only so long as I am okay with their presence. Likewise with a privately owned site. It is the owner's site, and the owner may exclude anyone, at any time, for any reason, without advance warning.
If someone wants to make up the rules themselves, and enforce them themselves, they should start their own site.
Maybe the problem people are having with this is the concept of a privately owned site, that they do not understand that it is a privately owned site. Pretty much everyone understands these concepts in relation to their own home, and they ought to be able to understand the same idea for someone's private site.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
