I just have to speak my mind about this, I really have to. Let me get straight: you guys want to make the admins use all of their power and their priviliges to give you what you want, namely a message board without any troublemakers. But how much better would be it really be?

This whole "banning" you guys seem to like so much thing reminds me of all of those petitions to ban players from the listservers. I know you want to get rid of the pests, at least permanently, I understand that, but come on! This is overdoing it! Next thing you know you'll all go like "He's a hacking geek! Ban!" or even worse "We don't trust him! Ban!" Kinda childish if you ask me, even more than the hackers.

Ironically enough, this will invite only more pests to try and test your wits (trust me, there are guys like that out there) who go all like "Hey, see how many posts you can get in before you get banned" or "Wow, a communistic forum! Let's how quickly I get banned!" Or maybe this will happen after the banning lists grows large: "Nah, I'm not going there, they seem too ban-crazy"

Granted, we're a smal community and we're doing our best to keep it alive. But by taking an attitude like "troublemakers get banned instantly" we'd practically be sealing us off from the outside world like a clam would. Clammed up, it can only wither further and further. And we wouldn't want that now would we? We can keep the pests out, but nobody would dare to join. You can guess the result.

Another thing, what if one of our regular members makes a mistake (unlikely, but still, you never know), the kind that would get him banned? "O, we'll give him another chance..." *buzzer sound* Wrong! The admins' saving grace is that they're constant with their warnings and such, which prevents things like "But, why does he get another chance and not me? We did the same thing!" Answer is in two words: friendly politics (Ã(-) la Bush). With the rules and procedures out of the way, the admins can easily measure with two kinds of scales for the very same thing, which is never a good idea.

Ok, I may seem harsh with this, but my faith in this community (which is somewhat low to begin with) will crumble should the admins fell like banning for no reason. If anything, you'd never see me again.

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3