Sorry for the wall of text
Hi, I'm the Stars fan from the GDT the other day. Apparently, HF mods decided to keep me alive to let others know what happened & was going to reply with the story on what happened to HFStars, but the thread was (understandably) locked. So here goes (they're always watching, so this'll probably get deleted soon):
Benn and Seguin were doing an interview on a notably goofy radio station here in DFW and they were doing a bit of a rapid-fire segment. Something (i can't exactly remember) brought up the Sedins, and the two Stars said they were kinda weird. One of the hosts asked if they sleep in the same bed on the road and Benn said "man, I don't know what they do *awkward chuckle*".
Obviously, and they apologized for it, they could have handled the question better, but TSN, Deadspin, etc made a HUGE deal about the interview & it made it's way onto HF.
Vancouver was in the midst of a terrible season, and their fans were understandably upset, but they started going on to the main boards calling Benn and Seguin & Texans in general awful people, homophobes, etc. Stars fans were also in the boards saying, "hey, look maybe this isn't as big of a deal as you're saying. It was a joke, etc. It was a bad comment but jeez, take it easy" but they were having none of it, continuing the attacks and crap. However, HF global mods (a ton of them are Canucks fans) started deleting posts they disagreed with and infracting Stars fans for "flaming and antagonizing mods" when we were just discussing the issue and they left all of the Canucks fans posts up that were actual flaming posts.
Naturally, we went back to HFStars and discussed what was going on with our mods and started complaining that we were being treated unfairly (while still acknowledging that it's a flipping hockey website).
Our mods approached the global mods to get the banned members back and talk to them about the issue but the global mods swiftly removed all of the mods from power, and then went through our previous posts completely unrelated to the Benn-Seguin thing and started infracting and banning people for anything they could find as an "HF Violation". The stuff they were kicking us for was laughable, literally every board on the site has what they were banning us for. Over half of the regular users were banned or suspended, including all but one of our mods.
The worst part is that the mods kept feeding us the same "Please voice your complaints to this website", but they're the same ones that handle those complaints - so nothing was going to happen.
We had a tech-savvy guy that volunteered to put a board together so we could all talk hockey together still, and got a pretty good chunk of the board on there. It died down a bit, but there's still way more Stars talk on there than there is on HF. It sucks, becuase we had a really active board before, but HF ruined it.