No one has been permanently banned from OMNI, for disagreeing with the board owner, moderators, or combination of the two. Now, being completely banned from FT for other offenses is a different story, one which I have no direct knowledge or interest.

I can speak to your to latest unsubstatiated allegation:

1. No. He received several warnings over a 6-10 week period. The last being an explicit instruction to stop his bumping/updating activities because it was causing great consternation with quite a few other members. The moderators and other members were working with Randy to create a "Doc's Newstand" section for him to own. He offered to take a "vacation" again, to which I responded: "I don’t feel it necessary for you to stop posting on OMNI (new or old topics). I am asking you to refrain from updating older topics for a while"

2. Yes, he disagreed with his timeout (which, again, was only from OMNI, not all of FT). His timeout was earned for responding to an attack. He had been explicitly instructed not respond to any attack directed his way a week or so earlier.

3. Yes, he was informed. He (and the other poster with whom he was fighting) received a week timeout. As I told him at the time "Now I am stuck with the unenviable position of having to hand out equal “double minors”, even though he (the other party) picked the fight."

4. The other member served his punishment and returned, Doc elected not to come back.

So, no one has been permanently "banned" from OMNI for disagreeing with a moderator. Doc to this day can choose to post in OMNI if he wants to. He cannot put himself ahead of the TOS or the community though.

FWIW, I have all the email to back up the chain of events. jfe and I were in agreement on the facts and the punishment. Randy, as always was informed and did not overturn our decision.

In the future, I'd suggest that you might want to get both sides of the story, before you make another accusation.

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Sean
aka: skofarrell
Moderator, OMNI & American Express

[This message has been edited by skofarrell (edited Jan 25, 2004).]