>>>>>Although the interesting element here at UT a good portion of the call for banning is caused in some ways by MVP (so you mentionned) , and your site seems to attract a good bunch of them, more than others anyways. Corrolation between MVPs and banning maybe.
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>>>>This is the sad part. Is it because some benefit from their high profile in regards to that and try to go a little further to the borderline of the Terms & Conditions of this site and, sometimes, go over it. It proves one thing however. No matter the status of one person, we are all human beings and the rules of a site, such as this one, applies to all.
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>>>I go way overboard in the opposite direction ... I'm extremely careful to NOT step on other people's toes or to use harsh words. I am respectful of my MVP status and what it represents. You won't ever see me pushing that T&C envelope; nor, I suspect, will most other MVPs.
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>>>It's unfortunate that a correlation between being an MVP and deserving to be banned has even been mentioned here (see, I even tippy-toe around that ... you don't want to hear what I actually think about that ridiculous supposition).
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>>What about a correlation between being an MVP and actually getting banned?
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>>A couple of definitions:
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>>MVP Ratio: # of MVPs who have been banned / # of MVPs active on this site
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>>Average Joe Ratio: # of average joes who have been banned / # of average joes active on this site
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>>How do you think MVP Ratio compares to Average Joe Ratio?
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>Side statistic: compare
>#bans of MVP's / #messages of MVP's on this site
>#bans of average joe's / #messages of average joe's on this site
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>counting each ban for repeat offenders to see
>if MVP status also influences ban probability per post (as MVP's post more)

Hmm, that might be interesting, but I'm not sure how relevant. If "practice makes perfect", then by posting more often, and on more forums, you'd think an MVP would "know better" and have a lower chance of violating T&Cs. Especially if they've been present while other MVPs got banned, so they'd know they were not immune, and it could happen to them.

From what I remember in this thread, no-one actually said, in so many words, that MVPs deserve to be banned. I interpreted the remarks as saying there seems to be a higher-than-average chance of actually getting banned if you are an MVP - whether merited or not. Bonnie seems to have interpreted those remarks as saying that MVPs deserve to be banned, but I didn't read them that way.