Hateful speech isn't being encouraged. With the focus of openness it is hard to step in sometimes and ban people. The Admins have tried to make this as open of a place as possible. The problem is that sometimes people take advantage of it. Some people just get banned instantly like that Nomar 7 idiot. They are easy to identify. Others know how to play the system that this site has in place, and Beastly and a couple of others have been experts at it. Now Beastly is gone, and I think this site is a better place for it.
Honestly Tex, I think your only fault in your Spammers ball post was it was too sharp. I really don't think 90% of the people who read it, got it, and that is why it deteriorated. Not because of you, but because of the people who thought it literally was a thread for spam
You add a great element to this site, but I also think it might be time to let this subject die on the boards. There is no more good coming from the talking about it.