[Jiggymike]

People aren't going anywhere. It's gonna be like when they banned smoking in bars in NY and everyone said 'Well that's it, all the bars are going out of business because no one is going to go to them anymore!' People may have boycotted for a day or two but then they realized that they had no where else to go to get drunk and try to meet women. Same thing applies here but with no women.

The only difference here is that I think the mods had better ease off after the house cleaning. Citanul is thorough I think, he will go through and get rid of the worst offenders. Well established posters like SLT, PITTM, Chump Change, GA have all been doing this stuff for a long time, they are clearly not racist/biggoted and are just trying to have a good time. People are defending Yves but I think he has been starting trouble for a while whereas posters like the ones I mentioned (and tons others who we all enjoy) haven't REALLY done anything wrong.

As with most things, this is being handled backwards; instead of nipping the problem in the bud, we wait for it to get too bad and then have to be overly harsh. I think handing out 'mandatory' bannings on established posters or barely offensive words isnt' going to do anything. If you wanted to set an example, you did by banning Yves, he is popular enough to let people know you are serious. My suggestions is clean house, implement some new rules with more leniency than now but less than before, and let everyone have a good time. And let's not kill Gild, he really is a great mod, perfect for this forum.

P.S. Also ban the whiny crybabies who are ruining everything for the rest of us. If we don't have freedom of speech in a private internet forum, people should have freedom to complain about every little comment that upsets them. If this includes a certain red mod or two, so be it ([img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Sklansky, plz do not have me killedkthx).