>>Exactly the same thing and should be treated fairly (the same) in both cases.
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>Exactly.
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>However, there is a difference between the moderators right to ban a member and the other users' right to complain. While the moderator of both sites can ban whomever they choose for whatever reason they choose, the members of both sites can complain about it. It may have no effect whatsoever though other than to anger the moderator/owner. The moderator/owner could in fact, in he or she chose, ban members who complain. That is the perogative of the owner/moderator.
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>Just as members here complain about Kevin's banning, if you, or any other valuable contributor, were banned from this site members would be complaining non-stop as well. I assume the same is true of the other site, but I don't know because I don't visit that other site often. Of course, all of the members complaining about Kevin's banning has not brought Kevin back. The moderator or owner of the site still has the authority to allow him back or enforce the ban at his/her will.
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>It is up to the owner/moderator of any forum to determine which has greater value: to maintain the ban of the individual or to lift it. It is not a question of what is 'fair' or 'unfair.'
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>Members can only post in accordance with the rules and guidelines of each site and if they do not abide by those rules, they can be banned. They can be banned for any reason not listed as well as that is the right of the owner of the site (and any moderator if the owner gives a moderator the perogative to do so).
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>I'm not sure that helps your understanding, but I hope so. It doesn't make either banning 'fair.' But then, right or wrong, 'fairness' has nothing to do with it.

Tracy,

I agree with you 100%. I just want the members of the site to understand the feeling of the person treated unfairly. As for me, as I said, I got over the whole issue with foxite long time ago, though at the time the events were happening it was extremely hurtful.

It's one thing to understand and another to feel. I feel lots of different emotions in different time, but I can not often to communicate it the way people see and symphatize, I rather get the opposite effect more often and it does hurt a lot.