Originally Posted by Death_at_Midnight

Here's my .02 cents:

Sonneilon has a tough job to do. He is not the type ban someone lightly.

As a former site moderator myself, moderating is a tough job, especially to volunteer for. I've had to ban ppl in the past: some I had to act quickly because the site had a live chat component--there were hackers, and there were times when the only way to ban a hacker was to ban everyone from that user's address, reguardless of the innocent. And it had always left me with an ugly feeling.

Yet often times the site itself has to come first because there are other ppl here. Some are children. JD has no mechanism for parental controls or any movie-style rating/warning, and often times what is one person's standard of morality is not the standard of another. JD is an international site, and there are things done in the US culture that does not translate well to other cultures. In many ways, the mod has to stick with the lowest common denominator that is acceptible for a wide audience. Else the site could even be taken down for such things as improper content to minors, etc.

For a good hearted person, of which Sonneilon is, banning is not a simple issue, and banning is a lot more complex than it may seem.