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Old 01-03-2010, 02:50 AM   #18
joe2288
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Default Re: The Good, The Bad & The Banned

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Originally Posted by Anchor View Post
Here is where it gets thorny, and the nub of the issue. There are no "rules". The forum guidelines are broadly or narrowly interpreted - often it depends on context and recent history.

There are no "rules" for banning, just conventions amongst the mdoerators. Similarly there are no "rules" for lifting bans - but it does happen because we are careful about bans.

The moderators are volunteers and should not have to justify endlessly the actions they take in public - though they are often asked to do that amongst the moderator team as a way of keeping eachother in some broad consensus.

You may not like that, not everyone does, but that is the way this forum is run, has been run - and there are no plans that I know about to change it.

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agreed.
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