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The problem with ADT is that you can't call a spade a spade, even when it's obvious to everyone that it is a spade. On XXXPT you can say it, with the rule being that you better be ready to have someone dump on you over it.

The other problem with ADT is that they ban a lot of people (one to three every day), including senior members with 1,000+ posts and over a year of membership, and never say why. Even the regulars don't know why when a regular gets banned.



On the first comment, you have to learn to cater to the unwritten rules to get around any unseen landmines set up by the powers that be there. On the second, the "real" reasons versus the reasons that are bandied about via email show a decidedly different picture of the "consumer friendly consortium" the website tries to market itself as. Truth be told, I give a lot of credit to the owners of ADT for so perfectly emulating the "whore dynamic" as some here would call it; they can play various sides of an issue or decision against one another using substantial quantities of plausible deniability.

As far as RAME was concerned, the reasons why things weren't posted, if they were kind enough to send you a reason that is, typically revolved around obscure interpretations of their own unwritten rules. While the Orwellian "we're all equal but some are more equal than others" routine applied there too, it wasn't even close to the amount of it going on at ADT circa mid-to-late 2001 and beyond where ADT went completely into lockdown mode.
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