Banned for 1 month

Enno99, The politics forum has a very detailed charter and a high standard of debate and discussion is expected of posters who post there. For those who want a more light-hearted discussion of current affairs then the Current Affairs forum is a suitable alternative.
So before I get specific about the nature of your ban, you should know that it's only your sanction that gets discussed here. What other posters do or don't do are dealt with separately. Basically, a defence strategy of "other people were doing it too" doesn't get very far. Therefore the rent boy comment will be disregarded. It may be that the post/[poster in question is also going through a dispute process but that's not relevant in this thread, only your comment is.

If you noticed other people breaching the charter then the correct procedure is to report the post and the mod will review it and sanction it if they deem it to be below standard. So if you felt the comment was uncalled for, you should hit the report button, not join in.

So, you joined that thread with post #3238 on Sept 10 at 13.19 Your fifth post was deleted as being below the standard of debate expected and what quickly followed was several subsequent posts where there were other minor charter breaches and your posts and replies that were derailing discussion were deleted, and where you breached the charter twice more by posting videos/photos without context all in barely one hour.

A mod note was added to the video/photo posts to explain no dumping. And a mod note on thread at 14.54 repeating this and a related one at 15.20. You then quoted the mod note at 15.50 discussing it - again a charter breach because discussion of mod actions or directions should take place by pm away from derailing the thread. By the evening time you had your first warning for being uncivil to another poster who asked you why you were not answering the question posed to you on the back of your statement. The following day, it was more of the same - you were posting statements but not engaging with other posters or discussing them. While you were not the only one that day who had posts deleted, it was contributory to the mod needing to lock and tidy up the thread.

On the 13th you posted for the third time, despite earlier mod warnings, a photo without any context. Then you did it again, a whole load of links without any discussion of the context. This one was deleted with a mod warning. Again at 13.13 you link-dumped for the third time that day, quickly followed by the distasteful post that earned you the final ban from the forum.

So it's not necessarily that single post that got you the ban - on it's own it may have been deleted by a mod and a yellow or red card issued, but sanctions on most forums are incremental and therefore having had post warnings, thread warnings, a red card the next escalation would have been a ban.

The forum could really do with Trump supporters to give balance in debate about his presidency but unfortunately as I said earlier the Politics forum has a high standard expected of it's members. Everyone can trip up in the heat of the discussion, that's why mod nudges on thread are there, but when it happens that no matter what a mod says, the behaviour continues, and continues to disrupt the discussion then they have no choice but to sanction.

And when I see that over the space of three days posting, that you appear to not have read a bit of the charter you agree to abide by before posting in politics, but also ignore mod direction I've no option to uphold the ban.