<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by anonplz:
How are you going to do that, though? You can't exactly give people a psychological test as a term of membership. Additionally, while legally as owner you can probably ban whoever you want, from a board-morale standpoint, you can't just start arbitrarily banning people without it coming back to haunt you, like on some other moderation-heavy boards a lot of people here have bashed. You have to try to be "fair" in the eyes of the FT community, or else you create more problems in the aftermath. That would mean establishing rules and then respecting them, including Randy (while at the same time retaining the right to breach the rules if he feels he needs to).</font>
I don't think I said "arbitrarily". But I am on a board where they are very strict and quickly ban people if they really did something wrong. This does not stifle discussion among members, but one thing I have seen there is that once the board owner comes in and says "end it here", they really do - because they know otherwise they are out. One or two people have tried to say "I dare you to ban me" - they have never posted again, and the others have taken note for the future. It is like with children, they will go as far as they can if you do not stop them at some point.