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I've made repeated request to completely delete my handle and history. Please state your case and concerns. Thank you.
**ADMIN**
Our position is laid out as follows:
1) 7Samurai was one of our earliest members. Although we had many differences, we still remember his support during our early days, and don't wish to see him go.
2) Our main overarching goal in moderating this forum is to strive towards an efficient & useful information sharing community, free of unnecessary conflict & drama, while weeding out shills/smearers.
3) We are only interested in what happens here. Any outside conflict is none of our business and should not be brought here. This principle is the source of our main difference with 7samurai for a long time.
4) AZN747 strives to be fair to all parties within the industry. However, we are still a business entity. We respect Terb, however we are not its subsidiary, and we will not host secondary source info from it. Just as Tim Hortons would not allow someone to walk around carrying a sign saying "go try McD coffee" on its premises, we have repeatedly asked 7samurai to please stop re-posting content/screenshots from Terb, and desist from referencing other review boards. A request he has mostly ignored. Hence we are forced to censor many of his posts containing such references.
5) We have always believed 7samurai to have good intentions. This is something we respect him for. However we disagree with his overzealousness and moral crusade. Most of all, we believe that his "Messiah complex" (utmost conviction in one's own rightfulness & desire/need to strike down all he deems to be evil/wrong) combined with a George Bush doctrine (either with us or against us; if you aren't my ally then you are my enemy) is destructive and doesn't help anyone at all. It appears that his ego/vanity takes priority over any genuine intention to do good for the community.
6) Another general principle here is against post hijacking (the intentional steering of a review or discussion topic to another topic). Its not that we have not allowed 7samurai to say what he wants, we even allowed him a dedicated post for him to express his opinions. However, he insists to hijack any post at will to pursue his moral crusade and impose his views on others, whether they care or not. We cannot allow this. In fact, he has even hijacked this very own post by steering the discussion from whether he ought to be banned or not, to yet another one of diatrites of Terb-related members & conflict. Hence much of the replies are once again censored.
7) In regards to banning, that is something we have always been reluctant to do, and treat as very last resort. We don't see the need to ban any member at their own request since it is something they can do. In other words, if a member doesn't want his account anymore, they can simply abandon it.
8) Banning is our sole discretion. We need neither a member's permission for it, nor will we take orders for them to do so. We are a website admin, not a restaurant waiter. We don't respond well to rudeness or strong-arm tactics.
9) We have asked politely for 7samurai to provide a good reason why he must be banned instead of simply abandoning the account if he doesn't want it. Instead, he has responded with a combination of accusations/counter-questions/insults/orders/threats. The latest reason he offered is that he fell in love. However this seems odd and unrelated to the issue. Furthermore, he has made similar requests in the past (though not as forceful as this time), often issuing ultimatums to us to either fully endorse his position and allow him free reign to pursue his agenda, or to ban him. Hence "falling in love" seems to be a weak excuse.
10) At the present moment, we are still reluctant to ban 7samurai (based on old-time sake and also because in general we don't like to do it) and hope (rather futilely it seems) that he will have a change of heart. Otherwise, at his further insistance, and if nobody has any strong objections, then we can ban him. However, his extended request to erase all traces of his history is something we are unprepared to do. In the meantime, we have demoted him to newbie status because of his rather credible threat to harass us by spamming the forum until we give in to his demand.
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