we are arguing the morality, for lack of a better word atm, of the situation.  that's the whole point.  everyone knows this is stardock's forum and that they published demigod.  we don't like what they did regardless of this fact.  it should have already been implied that we know this is stardock's gig, because we're posting ON ITS FORUMS and arguing on behalf of someone they banned.  the effort on the part of warskull's friends is in order to get stardock to unban him.  (i'm basically explaining to you why the  thread was created, which i don't feel i should have to do but w/e). 

second, i was responding to people who initially referenced other companies.  i did not make the original vague comparisons.  someone else did.  i was responding to them with my experience.  even so, comparing other companies and their forums makes sense to me as a customer, especially when i'm observing how other customers are treated and how i could be treated in the future.  i don't think warskull was treated fairly or well at all based on my involvement in and observations of other communities, and i'm not scared enough of losing access to a video game to agree with treating an isolated incident of dissent with a complete ban

They will just use a 1-time cc# generated by Paypal. I'm waiting to see if Chaos figures that out and makes a return.

Now we are talking in circles. The morality of the situation is irrelevant regardless of much you'd like to believe it isn't. The idea of whether or not Warskull was treated unfairly is based entirely on your point of view which, as you've already stated, is calibrated on the behaviours of other communities and other moderators. Being as this community, this forum and these moderators aren't those whose calibrated your opinion and ideals of fairness, the standards to which the other communities and moderators are kept, and those standards are fairly low, do not apply here.

Attempting to counter-argue my point that people here forget that this is Stardock's show by stating that everyone knows this because the forum has their name on it points to me that you don't understand my original point. We know this is Stardock's forum because their name is one it. This part is correct. People forget that the rules here are created by Stardock, as clearly evidenced by the fact that two people have been given given life time bans for their forum behaviour, because they - like you - attempt to use other communities and rules and standards to measure. Perhaps saying they've forgotten is an incorrect use of the word forgotten. I think perhaps a better description would be that people are to ignorant to the fact that this community is different and by extensions it's moderators and owners are also different. Look before you leap certainly applies here.

Your didn't explain why the thread was created - the thread was created in a poor attempt to overstate a 'problem' and attempt to rally the communitiy into getting a player unbanned by causing outrage. However, from the posts in this thread, it's safe to say some people here view this situation as I do - a welcome change from the usual crap we're forced to endure when interacting with any online community via the forums.

And being banned won't be an issue if you keep things constructive and civil. View the non-Demigod focused parts of the forums and you'll get a great understanding of how this community functioned before we, the Demigod players, came.

You are falling very far from reality here.

First off, oppinions do matter. If SD wants to have a community (which I'm assuming they do), then they have to treat it correctly, otherwise people (myself included) will stop participating in the community because it may mean they can no longer play the game.

Second, I don't think that warskull broke any rules, just that someone got mad and he got banned.

Third, I don't think his dislike of the game is "the usual crap" at all. He was pointing out things he disliked about the current game and that SD has failed to fix them, albeit in an impolite manner. Forcing him out of the game because of that certainly does not add to the game.

Finally, you are biased. You obviously love this community which makes you think it is perfect.

All this relative morality stuff be damned, kicking someone out of a game (and all future games) for saying that they don't like the game and that the developers have thus far failed to live up to their promise is just plain wrong. You're lying to yourself if you try to disagree.