Victoria and Wendy, I can't really give absolute answers to hypothetical questions and I can't promise you that every decision made on this board will have the approval of all members, but certainly anybody who feels he has input to contribute to a given situation is free to write to the administrators and share that input or ask questions. Such information may be asked for or volunteered when Alex considers the grounds for revoking or banning a member, though the final decision will be Alex's. We don't plan to make a public statement of bannings and we ask that you respect the spirit of the guidelines and limit your own questions and objections to private messaging. There is little advantage in suspending a member's posting priviledge if he's to be allowed to continue posting through third-parties. If he has a convincing rebuttal he will have the chance to present it to Alex directly.
If you ever wonder what happened to a thread, write me or the moderator of the forum, or you can write to the author directly. When a thread is deleted the author is notified and told why his thread was taken down. Suspended members can send and receive PM's just as the rest of us can, though once their membership is revoked they will no longer have access to board resources.
The idea is to keep the focus of the board on poetry in the public forums and to deal with disciplinary matters in the least disruptive way possible.
I know this doesn't reduce everything to absolutes, but situations do vary. That's part of what our excellent staff have to consider, and we appreciate your confidence.
Carol
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