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Posted By: barrysloate

As Brian and others have said (and I think that was Brian's longest and most eloquent post ) this board should always be a civil place where people can come to visit. As Leon can corroborate with the daily hits, there are many people looking at the board each day who do not post. Some of them may be new to the hobby, and as such feel insecure about posting. But they may also be afraid to do so, because they see how easily someone can be attacked. They may feel that if they post something stupid, they will become the butt of somebody's sarcasm and nastiness.

This is not the first time the issue of decorum has been brought up. And to take it a step further, and I discussed this with Leon earlier today, Leon does have one specific obligation to all his advertisers, and that's to keep as many people looking at this board as possible. If we make ourselves out to look like a bunch of uncouth yahoos, then we are going to lose a lot of that traffic.

Jay is not the first to be banned, and while Bruce hasn't been, he likewise has an obligation to carry himself around here with a little more class. All of these distracting threads hurt the board. Period.