The post I just recently deleted (replying to folks talking about politics in Star Trek) discussed science fiction as a reflection/commentary on contemporary society; Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers, the Star Trek episode 'Let That Be Your Last Battlefield' and the game world of Golarion and 'good guy governments' versus 'bad guy governments'.
I would say that my post was topical and primarily related to the acceptable topic of game companies and political views in artistic works, but your immediate prior post instructed me to avoid off-topic conversation and specifically referenced Star Trek politics. In an effort to ensure I avoided crossing a line, I deleted the entire post.
I imagine that you don't have time to read every post in every thread - you've built a thriving community and it's not practical to fully read every post in every thread, especially if you're not personally interested in it. However, I think the Original Post (OP) of a thread helps set the tone. Since there were multiple bans coming from the same thread, it might be worth revisiting the OP - I've added bolding for emphasis.
Today's announcement from Steve Jackson Games is full-steam partisan/activist/pro-abortion. I don't care what side you fall on: pro-abortion, or the side that's on the right side of history. Right to privacy? Keep your extremism private.
Official word from Steve Jackson, alienating the majority of people.
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/July_08_2022/Roe_v_Wade
They states that they'll donate profits to help murder children. (Link to the "charity" http://www.lilithfund.org )
For me, it's easy to avoid taking the bait in this particular case.
But, while my wife and I have three children and have never sought an abortion, we did experience a miscarriage. This type of post hardly encourages a nuanced discussion of personal experiences, and whether criminalizing (or forcing parents like us to defend ourselves from even the accusation that we committed a crime) is heinous in a free society for all kinds of Libertarian reasons, let alone pro-social policy Democratic ones.
It just doesn't make sense to me that BattleMaster and Pat got banned, but Cathode Ray and Chris24601 didn't.
VisionStorm (also not banned) makes the point that "the real reason SJG put out this announcement draped in woke language about being a privileged white heterosexual male, and jumping in to mention transgender people, voter IDs and a whole other bunch of stuff that has fuck to do with abortion" means that even in the context of discussing SJG and their positions, well, a lot of political talk comes in. And since the OP made the initial claim that this post by SJG is "alienating the majority of people" any statement about political affiliation/agreement with the issues is tantamount to an on-topic rebuttal (at least from my perspective).
And in this specific case, both Pat and Battlemaster were banned without any specific warnings in this thread and both in direct responses to S'mon, who also wandered off-topic in several of his previous posts.