A and C, Rob wants to say:

I am not as stubborn as you might think, iwrbf :-)

Size matters :-)

iwrbf, you can't think of pprune as a hobby forum. It's a giganticly sized pile of people.

23% percent of the site visitors have no idea how a forum works. This is plain dangerous because even a few of these people can disturb the normal flow in a forum - not yet speaking about the possible legal issues of their actions...

The poster in this thread was banned because of some behaviour of this kind. I will not disclose why, maybe a moderator had just a gut feeling (intuition) and decided to protect the habitat of 375.000 users.

Quality over problematic quantity in individual decisions about people showing the "wrong" approach to this forum.

Or as I would say: Kick the few problematic ones out before they found a basis for trouble.

I DO understand this. I just wanted to suggest that the acting moderator shortly explains: "I have a reason for this".

Kind (and respectful) regards Rob,

Peter

iwrbf
 

Thank you for putting that into a form of English that I can understand!

Well I can't say why he was banned because it wasn't me who banned him!

A&C, what Rob was trying to say was the OP has been a naughty boy! :}

Quite a few people, for example, have been banned for things they've sent (such as advertising or abuse) by PMs that you'd not even see on the forums.

I don't know in this case, as it wasn't me who banned him either.

Ultimately however, volunteer mods with limited time just can't go doing lengthy explanations (and subsequent arguments) with each banning.

Most people I've banned as a mod, it's been for blatant advertising.

G