Pook +1
There are some here, including a couple who have posted on this thread, who simply shout the same opinion again and again, and don’t listen. Elfin was often very funny with his fey mockney insolence, but it is clear he has gone way beyond the pale behind the scenes and in emails to others. He’s had a pretty long leash at times.
In the end, this forum isn’t here for just you big-hitters. And I include two people who seem aggrieved by this banning, TJ and SBZ. It’s Mark’s party. If “free speech” seems stifled here, tough. SUMO chaps. And you might, by your posting behaviour, be keeping others from posting, reducing Mark’s forum traffic etc etc. Deal with it.
I would entirely exempt Bullheart’s story from this however, I was rather disappointed to hear about that. Not good. Sometimes two people can have an entirely different view of a situation, problems arise, things get handled badly. And the situation get worse. As anyone who is married knows…
One thing I really really dislike is value judgements that people are getting “bullied” on forums. It is right up there with Godwin’s law as a sign someone has lost an argument or lost it completely when they start saying people are “bullied”. Often it means that they don’t like the fact that the majority of others posting disagree with them. It is a rather pathetic and totally irrefutable thing to say, and is rarely accurate.