Darren, Michael has a busy life and is not always able to reply. This is not a paid for forum so cannot supply the levels of moderation/service that a financed one would. There are about 10 of us that supply free moderation which is not 24 Hr and we all do as much as we can but plainly not full time or real time, so sometimes things don't get picked up by us which is why we have a report system. Remember all the Moderation is provided free by people with real lives who are sufferer's just like you and have our good days and bad ones so do not claim to be perfect but you will find us honest.
A list of who is banned may be transparent but I do have concerns over a name and shame method as it is judgemental and we are here to support sufferer's as best we can, not to tell them off when they are naughty.
We do and have excluded members on occasion but it is seldom and only done after repeated breeches of the rules and several short bans and after discussion among the Mods but obviously there is a limit to how many short bans we will issue, but I repeat it is very few if I try and remember there are less than 20 over the 5 years + since I've been a Mod.
The issue of who is banned and how many etc is not a great one as when you subtract the Blatant spammers and advertisers it is very few. I think the last few I have banned who were not spammers have been ones who are either harassing other members or insulting another member on the boards and that is over a period of a number of weeks but out of over 10,000 members and the 200 or so that visit daily it is a very small percentage. Dave's Idea would not generate many entries.
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