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Originally Posted by MTK
A lot of people just come and go over the years. The actual list of banned people is pretty short, it's mostly just spammers. You have to be a raging asshole to get booted. Even then I probably give people way too much slack.
That said we have had a couple of people cross the line big time. Like I'm talking personal threats behind the scenes. Things that just went way too far. The internet tough guy thing is one thing, but these days with how easy it is to google someone and find out personal info, it's not funny.
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There was a short period of time where I served as a moderator on a music forum years ago. It is so funny, but yet concerning, that people could get all worked up over getting called down by the forum mods that they try to threaten them. Of course, I always went by a moniker that did not have anything to do with my real name for that reason. I eventually told that forum's owner that I didn't have time to police the board anymore. Eventually, I left it.
I was like you, unless there was someone who was such an obnoxious asshole that I had no choice but to boot them, I usually just took the approach of editing their posts until they got fed up and left on their own. In a way, I always felt having some posters who would cause mild conflict or disagreements made the board somewhat fun, but people often carried it too far.