...in fact, he did something similar here and got his thread pulled correct) and I believe he got the permanent boot over there. Someone said that he started the PMTS forum in the first place...strange circle, huh?
Sort of correct. I mod'ed his post, he accused me of communism and protecting PMTS/Harald and chose not to continue posting. I don't remember if I deleted the remainder of his posts or not.
The original RealSkiers forum was started and managed by Peter Keelty as adjunct to his RealSkiers pay site; but SCSA
was the first member. (I was actually the second to join that original.) That forum crashed, at which point the hosting service realized their backups were no good, so everything started over). On this migrated iteration, I believe that JBotti rejoined first and, therefore, is the senior member.
I actually hate the whole banning thing (except for spammers) it tends to deaden the forums (as has definitely been the case with Epic and PMTS forums) and I am happy that fairly heated discussions and their proponents are allowed to exist on this forum.
I agree (except for concern about how heated things seem to get). I would hope it remains that all are "encouraged" to contribute on this forum.
The less moderation, the better.

It's sometimes hard to keep midwif's finger off that trigger though.