Opinion of Libertas' banning

[Alcon]

Seriously?

The dude promised to stop breaking a bunch of rules, expressed remorse, and then started breaking them again almost immediately.  On the rare occasions he started conversations about his objections to the rules, he didn't complete them.  It wasn't a matter of agreeing to disagree; he gave up on the exchanges.  He was just interested in breaking rules, not explaining why they were bad rules.

This just isn't UseNET; we're a moderated message board.  For a moderated message board, we give posters a lot of leeway to justify themselves.  AFAIK, no one who has ever bothered to formally justify their behaviors has ever ended up being punished with more than a warning.  Libertas did not communicate this way.  He consistently broke rules that he was aware of, even agreed to obey, and he provided no real justification for this.  If that wasn't punished, what possibly would be?  For those of you who pine for unmoderated debate, I'm serious, UseNET still exists.  Go see what it's like these days.