[durron597]

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I wasn't. Hope I wasn't wrong, I've never had a problem with him in my forum and he contributes all over the map from what I've seen (his latest Thailand thread in OOT was probably my favorite ever from that forum, go check it out if you haven't, and hes the most recent MSNL HU champ!).

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I am aware of both his positive and negative contributions to 2+2.

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The problem avatar was changed, Berge said it wasn't a big deal, he was already on AIM with me asking who banned him so he could contact them, so I went ahead and told him

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fine, of course

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/ unbanned him.

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This is one big problem, unbanning people for very obviously bad offenses (like pornographic avatars) is a huge nono, especially without contacting the banning moderator first. He asked me on AIM to unban him as well, and I did not.

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I don't know him all that well,

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Probably not a good person to be unbanning then without consulting anyone...

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but hes definitely very helpful if you have any interest in going to Thailand, which after reading that thread a ton of people seemed to have.

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this is irrelevant. How many times have we banned KaneKungFu123 for trolling despite his positive strategy posts in HSNL? I regarded Degen until recently as a decent acquaintence but being a moderator has costs associated with it - it's not a license to give friends special privileges. Unfortunately Degen is no longer speaking to me because he found out I mentioned his troll/flamewars from the AR forum on the private mod forum despite the fact that I have nothing personal against him. Oh well.