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@Matt Perkins

In short, the responsibility for making this board a good place to exist takes both Tom being easy going and banning as a last resort (again, reference Blackadder here) and us, the forum members, being easy going as possible and ignoring (either with the button or without) the assholes that delight in tweaking people.

I registered years after I found this forum (I think it wasn´t even vbulletin back then, the forum pages had a blue background and different layout). You might remember that the banning policy was very different in those days…

@Tom Chick in July 2003

There are no other outstanding warnings, bannings, probations, whatever. We will not ban people because you disagree with their politics. We will not ban people because you don’t like them or because they made you look like a fool. We will not ban people because they call us names or discuss the way the forum is run. We will not ban Brian Koontz for his strident calls for ‘full disclosure’, or whatever it is he wants. We will not ban Jason McCullough for being too left or Dan Morris for being too right.

If things get out of hand, Mark or I will ask you to please chill. We will be polite. We will not be arbitrary. We will try to be clear about what we expect. We will even discuss it with you. It will not be a personal vendetta thing. We’re pretty easy-going guys. If anything, we’re easy-going to a fault.

Anyway this place is an absolutely unique island of reason in an ocean of madness with regard to gaming forums. This whole debacle isn´t funny.

Furthermore I like Toms thoughts about movies and I hope he unbans himself soon.