Huh, well I got banned over Surefire once, and I wasn't even criticizing them directly.
When I signed on it was SureFire worship and Maglite hate (ironically, Maglite was hated for suing a small company, Arc)
The Maglite bashing grated on me at times, just petty pointlessness that would turn a thread into a dogpile on Maglite.
Anyway, in such a thread, somebody posted something negative about SureFire and ended up banned. I pointed out the hypocrisy that the whole thread was dumping on Maglight but that guy got banned for saying something bad about SureFire. I was promptly banned.
That was a long time ago (like 2008) so it's ancient history now, and that particular mod who I despised eventually left so it's all gravy.
I definitely recall some Maglite bashing.... Then again, it was justified. I'm sorry, but it was. How are you going to sue a company for having words printed around the bezel of their single-AAA light that looks literally
nothing like your single-AAA offering. Claiming you created that. Created what? Printing on a bezel?? That's beyond ridiculous! Even more ridiculous, he actually won that lawsuit.
To say that the owner and CEO of Maglite is sue-happy would be a massive understatement, in my humble opinion. Granted, over the years there have been some lawsuits which he initiated that were 100% deserved. But the one against Arc sure as heck wasn't. He deserved to be treated like garbage for that one. But Karma bit him on the backside....
Single largest Palimony award in U.S. history. Yeah, if you want to leave your two lazy biological sons part of your company in your will who have done literally nothing to help you make it a success and whom you haven't seen in countless years; that's one thing. When your Life partner of many years whom you treat as a wife but never actually married, asks you why you're doing that. Don't treat her and your two step-sons (all of whom have helped you make your company a success) like garbage. He actually called all three of them good "employees."
As far as those who complained over getting banned due to criticizing SureFire back in the day, I'd sometimes check out their posts after they complained. More often than not, they made themselves out to be completely innocent. Just criticizing the brand. Well, no; there was usually more to it than that. Folks try to paint themselves in the best light possible. Yeah, that doesn't work if the moderators or admins. leave their offending posts up for others to read. Other times, individuals were trolling. Warned numerous times. Kept at it. Eventually got banned. Complained it was over nothing, or for being critical of SureFire. Well, that's not true. That last post they left before getting banned might seem like a very minor rule violation. But it doesn't shows the numerous other ones that came before it.
To be clear,
not saying I don't believe you when you say you were banned for criticizing SureFire. Am saying that if such a hush-hush policy existed back in the day, how in the world was
I never banned for my countless posts criticizing SureFire? Seems bizarre to me that the single biggest "offender" on all of CPF was never banned for criticizing SureFire. Just seems bizarre. That's all I'm saying.