Ban Me

Bow your head in reverence!

Thank you.

Thanks for sharing. You clearly don't understand what I've written and your thoughts on this matter will be considered with the level of importance and respect that they deserve.

Someone may make a decoder ring that would allow me to decipher what you've said. The one word I understood has asterisks in it. I've come to realize that deep thinkers are few and far between in this world, your comment is evidence.

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Hi Tim,

While I haven't posted anything prior to this thread, I've read scores of good articles here and have been a visitor for at least 3 years.

I don't know any of these people and don't know whether the people I discovered have a "high post count". I simply read some interesting comments from what I thought were helpful members, and noticed that the authors had been banned.

The comments that I read from people that had been banned I thought were on topic, comprehensive and thoughtful.

Banning "for good reason" is subjective and there's no way I could know what your reasons were, or what their offense might have been.

Of the comments I read from people who were banned, I saw no vulgar or insulting comments. self promotion or spam.

Some of the comments were 3 years old, so you may want to go back farther in a future search.

I merely scanned various interesting threads and found that people who had made reasonable comments were banned.

You have a business to run and far be it for me to attempt to tell you how to run it. I can however give you the perspective of a well meaning reader.

When I read this thread, a couple of the replies have a high idiot factor....yet the people who contributed well written and thoughtful comments have been banned.

Several of those who replied here in this thread acknowledged that they had been banned or know others who've been, so I think I'm not alone. In fact, some spoke of banning as though it was a common occurrence.

One more thing before I leave this alone. If these folks have been banned for conducting themselves improperly, their content is still here. If the banned people were offensive or conducted themselves improperly and don't deserve to be here in your mind, why leave some of their content up?

I have no dog in this hunt other than to suggest that banning good, interesting or helpful members is the slippery slope to a declining site. I see posts that indicate that my concern isn't unique.

Thanks for responding

Thanks Tim... Idiots deserve to be banned, thoughtful contributors don't. It sounds like we're in agreement and that you have a good handle on this. My goal is for the Warrior Forum to continue to grow and thrive. I've learned quite a lot here.