Dr. Maserati said:
Ok - I have just spotted on a separate thread that Buckwheats ban has been increased to a 'lifetime ban'.
I really think that is an inappropriate sanction. Was there a way to communicate and warn him that his 'tweets' (or PMs) could result in a lifetime ban?
He was given plenty of warnings to curb his behaviour, which he ignored.
He has been given plenty of alternative routes to communicate grievances and off-topic politics through, and chose to ignore those too. And kept flouting forum rules.
Once he was given some time out to reflect, he continued the same public spat, about his grievances on this forum, by pestering a CN member of staff who is not involved with forum moderation, on an external site. He might have been on Twitter, but he was simply continuing the he same crusade that we stopped here,
directly with us, in an equally inappropriate place.
We don't set out to ban people permanently, or at all. But if someone becomes a law to himself, displays an ongoing crusading attitude that flouts the ground rules that apply to us all, shows time and time again he doesn't know when to stop or find the on-topic places we have made on the site where he can posts to his hearts content, and is also incapable or unwilling to engage in a reasonable conversation (in private or here, in this thread), there really comes a point when they themselves leave us with only one appropriate option only.
It also should come as no surprise that when someone is put on notice, that when they then go and find CN members of staff on external sites, and start to pester them about internal matters that this member of staf has no dealings with, after ignoring the actual avenues offered here
before the ban with people that are involved, that that is not on.
So when they continue with the same (and inappropriate) behaviour on these external sites, but still on a CN page (unrelated to the forum and with an unrelated members of staff), it has consequences for their welcome status here too. In the end it is "our" door they walk through, not theirs.
We all have bad days, I guess we all overstep the line once or twice. It usually get dealt with, and everyone moves on. Some folk don't know when enough is enough, and become utterly disruptive. We tried to be reasonable with him, but enough is enough. There is a point when we stop making the effort by chasing the conversation and move on.
We don't patrol other sites for what you say about the forum here, so don't have that discussion please, it is immaterial.
It was his inappropriate
behaviour to members or staff on an external site about internal matters that was the final straw, whilst he was on probation for that exact behaviour. Nothing to do with
what he said, as such. He might see that differently, but he is wrong.