On PoA there were a number of people screaming for that because they did not like my factually based posts about Covid in particular or my joke cartoon about armed passengers on 9/11. But it never happened. Indeed, my account is actually not banned if you have a look. Instead a bunch of weird stuff happened. Password reset without my permission. Then all pages generating errors after a password reset by me. Then my ip being banned.

I never did receive any warning or explanation about any of it. In truth since it is privately owned I have always tried to follow their rules. I will politely ask for an explanation at times, but always tried to follow the stated rules. Apparently that is not good enough these days.

As to BT, the announcement survives but has not had much positive response. People there seem to receive it as bad form. My sense was that BT is a type specific club and I placed the announcement in 'Babble Talk' so seemed fine to me as not much direct competition at all really. But the mods will have to decide what they want to do.