re: Are bannings actually based on traffic generation?

That was an irrelevant post. This isn't about proving I'm unbannable or saying I've done worse than everyone who has been banned. There are big inconsistencies. Think of other examples

Correct. Lots of variables.

1). Admin who is on duty
2). Poster base doing the RAing (is it LSU? More likely to get banned. Is it a non-rival of LSU doing the RAing? Neutral. Is it a rival of LSU doing the RAing? Less likely to get banned)
3). Have you been banned recently? Corollary: are you a "problem poster"?

And then there's just automatic bannings: porn, gifs of women pooping out a moving van window, doxxing bans, the completely understandable Katrina joke bans and Aggie bonfire bans (you can see these coming a mile away) to the odd automatic bannings re: coaches' wives discussions (I'm not getting any closer to that topic).

Posters have been banned for excessive RAing. As they should be.

But they can't all have the same bias all the time. If Admin B disagrees does he simply bite his tongue and respect the other's bias? This is the established internal decorum - to just let one another be douchebags? Shitty practice for a successful website built on ad revenue

I don't think they have all the same bias all the time. Some are more self-aware than others.

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There are variables like how long the poster has been here, it also matters when you do the troll or offensive post. If you do it and it causes a baby back bitch to ra then you will likely be banned. If you happen to do it in a thread where people are going to argue back then you likely wont be banned. It probably also depends on which admin happens to see it.

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This is what I've always thought

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The more self-aware admin notices the other Admin being unfair. What does he do?

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It depends. Sometimes I have heard of people being reinstated as soon as it was brought to another admin's attention.

And the number of banned posters is a very small percentage of the overall site traffic. You could ban everyone who frequents the SECROT and not really affect site traffic.

But, I do think some posters have become "starring characters" and their banning may drive as much of a narrative of a site culture as their non-bannings would. And ultimately they'll be back, even though they're a pain in the arse to the admins (see killz).

But in the end, it's probably more about what makes more or less work for them in a lot of cases. Knowing you have to deal with 40 RAs everyone killz posts a thread could get annoying. (But the rant is far more tolerant of killz than our Tigerboard, which can ban a poster by downvoting. He usually doesn't last an hour there.)

I very rarely post on TD, but I got a post nuked after the Bama/LSU game last year because I decided to defend the Million Dollar Band. I didn't talk shite about TGBFTL or anything LSU related, but I wasn't about to sit there and let them bash us (and in a way me). Like 5 min after I posted my post was deleted. I couldn't even see who responded to me.

How do you know if you've been banned? How do you know if you've been unbanned?