Mark
Monday 24th December 2007 2:26am [Edited]
Hampshire
2,701 posts
Paul, welcome to the site and thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I can assure you people don't get banned from the BSG on just a whim - trust me, I hate to see people banned because, apart from causing a few raised eyebrows like this, it reduces the size of the community (and no site owner wants to see their audience drop!)
The general consensus is we're actually pretty lenient - we don't delete controversial posts for example.
Anyway, in the case of Kent Pete, I'm not going to go into all the reasons the decision was taken here but suffice to say I think the banning is fair and we haven't over-reacted.
As Aaron has said above he/they aren't necessarily permanently banned (as Jamie Jones has shown). What perhaps isn't in the open - hence these posts - is that Pete has the opportunity to get back to us if he feels he's been un-fairly treated - as of yet he hasn't emailed us back though.