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Jon said

We should not process the attitude of "assume guilty" for any individual because nobody want to be falsely accuse of anything. Especially we cannot pin point anyone to the precision of individual level on the internet.

"A block of words" is indeed prohibiting for others to participate in conversation, but that does not mean this person shall be ejected as freedom of speech prevail in our society. Instead, we shall gave him direction to make our participation in the forum more comfortable.

I also want to ask Peter what rule have you use from the rule book you draft previously to make this decision as I question is this action against Greg just?

Thank you for your comments. This was and continues to be a difficult decision, and there is no "right" decision. I apologize to everybody that this is distracting from the real topics and purpose of this forum: to discuss Canadian banking.

For a few weeks, I pondered a couple of alternatives: open up a public discussion or message Jack / Greg / SD privately. I decided not to conduct essentially a public trial: some visitors clearly appreciated some of Greg's posts and some did not at all. This was not about taste (although some will fairly call the forum rules completely subjective), however, and a public trial would result in some personal attacks. This is actually already happening in this thread: not only should we stay away from personal attacks in general, but it is especially not fair now that I have banned the Jack / Greg / SD accounts. I should probably close this thread.

Regarding the rules, Jack / SD repeatedly broke rules 1 and 2 after repeated warnings, and I had failed by waiting too long (in fact, until Jack asked to leave) before too much damage was done: others told me they were leaving the forum due to Jack's comments and SD left big holes of empty posts throughout the threads. Greg did not break rules 1 and 2, did not ask to leave the forum, and I've removed "edit" permissions for everybody but admins / moderators after a post is 24 hours old. But he was no longer welcome on this forum by the time he created this account (rule 9 depending on how you interpret it). This could turn into a larger societal debate (I agree that we should give people direction instead of kicking them out, for example), but in my opinion and in the context of this forum: he had been given enough chances and I was not prepared to give him any more.