Foreword.
After I started writing this (offline) in reply to #3, I logged on to the website to see where the poll was going, and one thing is obvious the from reading this message board from the beginning, and knowing even just what anyone reading that and "I too need to change my username[...]" is that, like many places where wrongful banning is a big problem, Free Talk Live, you the entity ARE NOT PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION! In addition to other factors. Now...
Thats about as inside the box as I've seen in awhile. Man! For openers before I start I want to say that I agree with you on at least one level of right to. A forum, such as this one and most like it on the internet and chat rooms is private property and dominion and should be. Only major exceptions being in the case of paid admission, such as with Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, or government run "community support forums" -- say, if the EPA had one, then a LEGAL obligation to be fair does and should come in. Not just a moral and ethical one. But beyond that, back to your thinking outside of that box. You have a right to go to a soup kitchen and give all of the money in your pockets to the first poor person you see. You have the right to take your brand new tv and soak it overnight in the bathtub. You have the right to spontaneously order all of the guest at your dinner party to leave your house at once. You have the right to see somebody drowning in a river, noone else around for miles take out your cellphone and video it for your later personal amusement instead of call for help. You have the right to watch and evil police office beat an innocent civilian to death and then 15 years later vote for him for President. But. And this is the boxcutter. That doesn't even mean much less prove that you should! Giving away all of your money is a serious thing, it has repercussions. In most practical cases there are strong reasons you shouldn't do it. The tv set, If your making a video or something where your making a point... Oh... Japanese electronics are the work of oh, people other than people living in the United states that need work, as your friend I might suggest you take the set back for a refund and hire someone for the odd job of soaking the rest of the money overnight, and then give up seeing it as basicly your problem and not infringing on anyone else, but that you still shouldn't. You shouldn't be so rude to your dinner party guests...If there was an extenuating circumstance, you and the Mises been suffering an out-of-sync based sexual disfunction, and suddenly you bother sensed it... Very much in the mood at the same time for the first time in decades... You should at least at some point explain yourself. But you do and should have the right not to. You don't even need a shread of a good reason. You might be thought of as an asshole and treated accordingly, but you'll deserve it. The drowning victim. Even though the law can't and I my opinion should never compele you, Joe Average River Bystander to, snap out of it. Unless otherwise noted you OWE that person pressing a botton on your hip and signaling someone to save their life, and whatever good part of your soul a video of the rescue. The first time you watch it, you should pull that other part of your soul out of your chest and stomp it to death.
As for the evil police office turned President... How many sci-fi movies and tv show episodes have we seen that take place in the 1990s through early 21st century... You have the right to, but trust me who can see blind man what somehow is invisible to, you definitely shouldn't. Most would think this is an easy one even for low-souls, but scale it down and change the shape slightly and they can't see it.
Back to wrongful banning. What should be done? Well, on an individual level that depends on who you are. If you are in a chat and you see someone wrongfully banned. Say so as part of the chat. Maybe also report the known or suspected wrongful banner. The part of human nature in exploit when the wrongful ban-ee somehow says they were wronged doesn't work as well when its instead against a hey, I saw that person get wronged. And in most cases there's a tape; if whoever you report them to is fair-minded a tape of the incident is too powerful a tool to ignore. They'll instintively know to go right for it or at least not leave it out, you will have called their attention to a log of the wrongful banning. And if you make a mistake or if its a these three who could have did it were present situation, you will never get someone who doesn't deserve it in trouble. If you are someone who would get such reports, don't ignore them. Do something about the problem. Unban the person, and talk to the problem banner. If that doesn't help and its within your authority get rid of them.
If, and this is the most important catagory, if you ARE a wrongful banner, STOP DOING IT. You say from the sidelines "its not that simple. and you were doing rather good too...". I know it's not that simple. I'm not stupid, you think I don't know its not THAT simple?! If you are a problem banner, you probably fall into one of n categories, with shades of some of the others.
1)The power tripper. With arbitrary tastes in who they tolorate.
2) the (almost) xeno phobic speratist/elitist.
3)the shallow elitists. Does away with "not-we"s, tends to have shallow grasp and concept of us and them, insider/outsider, worthy/not worthy. Typically younger, but adult and even mature-aged adult not unheared of.
*) (and this is the one you probably don't expect me to know about) the boxed in. All ages. Ranges from grooves to the wrongfulness, to apathetic, to romantically simpathetic. Would do right without much if any pressuring if only had the resources, and/or access to have situational awareness enough to judge for themselves, instead of (at least feeling like) being dependent on someone's emailing them in some cases, to alert them to a troll. Which they by order must do something about immediately. Made of the position they are in in an authority structure.
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Tell you what. This IS a reply to a particular post. Last time I was on the forum was heating up and there were afew or several reply posts... So I want to get what I have so far of this in, so its timely and finish it soon as almost a part 2.
And whoever, DUDE... There's no way you watched or read the chats in question and thought I was a spambot. For a week. Bet'ch you're either just saying that (dangerous) or you are basicly going on a form of hearsay and yourself weren't paying ANY attention. Someone is being judged or getting justice here. ...be truthful.