@Marokai: You're not gonna get banned from GAF if you disagree with a moderator's opinion. Nor will you get banned if you don't "follow the culture", whatever that means. You're also not gonna get banned if you say something unpopular. I don't get where this comes from. Don't equate GAF with SA.
If you do say something unpopular, people will argue with you over it just like anywhere else. And if you're an asshole about it, then you might get banned. That's it. If you're an asshole or break the rules, you'll be banned. And since you need to provide a non-free email address, which is likely your school or work email meaning it will be much harder to just re-register if you're banned, people have less incentive to be assholes and will instead attempt to discuss things in a civil manner with actual arguments and stuff, or alternatively just stay out of the discussion if they don't have anything of value to add besides being condescending.
As usual when people disagree though, it can get pretty heated and that can lead to name calling and bullshit like that and that will inevitably lead to a ban because name calling is a definite no-no on GAF. Thankfully that's a pretty rare occurance. If one has an unpopular opinion though, or disagrees with someone, one needs to be prepared to argue for it. If one can't argue for that opinion he's gonna look like a fool, again just like anywhere else including real life, and other members will probably make fun of him. If one does argue for it and they still make fun of him, then the arguments were probably weak or the opinion was stupid to begin with.
Also it's pretty hard to get permabanned from GAF I'd say. You need to really piss people off or continually break the rules despite warnings for that to happen. Mostly when a member gets banned it's a tempban. Junior Members on the other hand only get one shot and they're gone, but I think that's fair because a lot of new juniors really are assholes who don't know how to behave.
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