Maybe I missed something when I read the explanations, but didn't the other forum promote posting a :banana::banana::banana::banana: pic here and couple of it's members did just that? Didn't one of it's mods not only promoted a DDOS attack on XS but also gave instructions on how to do it? I am pretty sure both are against the law.

I get the whole "B*P" part since it scews up posts and it's just a product a lot of us use and I don't think that should have been censored, but as far as Vincent goes, I don't know the facts about that, but I do know him and Joel are close, I mean Joel brags about it and how he went to Taiwan for a show with them, so I know they are connected more than just advertising.

As far as people getting banned, this isn't an equal opportunity site, if you post detrimental statements on that specific site too encourage bad behavior, why would you care if you got banned from here? Does it really matter to you if you already don't like this site that you get banned from it? I have been banned from that site and all I did was disagree with Joel, so what does that say about their tactics? I have been called out by many of their members because of my various posts including my support for the Typhoon 3. Since I like it and it works for me I am somehow promoting it with false information. If Joel wanted to build that site to promote water cooling and the best practices, he wouldn't need to create 11 threads on why XS is screwed up. I doubt the guys over at overclock.net and hardforum.com agree with everything that is posted on XS, but they don't have dedicated threads for it and they don't promote attacks on this site.