Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-95.246.182.32-20150723175547/@comment-6383956-20150727032340

We all know I'm pretty loath to take Paul's side on anything -- and I absolutely agree with several critiques that have been made about him here (which I don't think I need to repeat because Paul has heard them from me with some regularity -- safe to say he knows :P).

That said -- Paul doesn't ban people for speculating or for posting things he doesn't agree with. Paul bans for exactly one reason: vicious, continued harassment. I think I've seen it happen MAYBE twice in the years I've participated in this forum. I've seen him suspend people for replying on the "Legitimate Canon Questions" forum, but only for like a day and that's an explicitly stated rule of that forum. Paul doesn't ban people because thinks they're stupid or irritating or wrong (lord knows I'd have been banned three years ago if that was the case!) -- he bans people if he thinks that they're making this forum an unsafe online environment for other users. And that's, as far as I know, it. The only reason Paul actually bans people. And you cannot fault him for that.

Can't believe I just wrote this whole frikkin' post defending Paul. Is the world ending? This has to be in a Nostradamus prophecy or something. :P