My gripe with the DDI is that I pay to be placed at the mercy of someone else's hormones. You would generally have to be a masochist for that. It is my understanding that if you get banned for whatever reason, your money will not be refunded. Given the kind of idiocy that goes on now in the forums (G0, et al), that is the kind of investment that I would not be willing to make.
DDI gets a thumbs down from me for that reason. If I am to spend money on something, *I* am the one that should be deciding my fate, not some emo punk who had sucked enough cock to be given a bereaucratic generalship.
You might as well get a whole set of bondage gear with your DDI subscription, then. The Gleemax ban thing is something I wasn't aware of, but frankly, it sounds... downright ludicrous. So you have to get along with douchebags if you want access to their rules database (which, for me, is the only real selling point of DDI)? Granted, there's the other side of the story -- people having to put up with douchebags because they don't pay and the jerks do.
Well, *I* stopped posting on principle.
I did because Meg got kicked out and, frankly, I went there for information. Most of that info is on poster's heads, not the forums themselves (though I still keep the Surrealdex on my bookmarks for occasional reference), and when the really smart people started moving here, I followed.
