bobby, on the several occasions that there have been "ar15.com crackdowns" people get pissed off. While I think that shit like JasonF and others have said is really stupid, I don't see how banishing somebody for saying something [b]you[/b] just don't agree with will add anything to our community.
I've been perusing this board for a couple years, and have posted using a couple different aliases and I firmly believe that the wild idiotic antics of guys like frankthespank, mcuzi (and all of his incarnations), BOG, and all of the other quasi-trolls added something to the atmosphere. Their extremist idiocy makes you take a step back and think about how truly loonie people can get. I've gone fruit-loopy a few times since we lost BOG and McUzi, because I didn't have the "I don't want to seem like this jackass" impetus always there. My extreme posts always hover on the barely tolerable, and are even accepted by a few, but when I look back I just shake my head and think, "What was I doing." Without the stupid antics of the professional extremo-trolls I, and others have become a little more extreme than we used to be.
Besides, seeing somebody make himself look like a total dipshit is really entertaining.