disappointing...
My only comment to this and Spartacus' banning is that it's pretty disappointing to see all the schadenfreude in this thread.
At risk of labeling and dividing...there were 4 posts out of 26 in the thread about Spartacus being banned that said something to the effect of "I'm glad he's gone". And a lot of the people one might have expected to express that sentiment didn't say anything at all.
How many of the 126 posts in this thread have been posts which served no purpose other than to bash Doug? I'm not going to go count them, but if I was a betting man, I'd be willing to bet it's a lot more than 15% (roughly 19 posts)...
Seems petty and beneath what we should be striving for insofar as forum decorum goes.
I guess what I'm saying is if our goal is for the forum to be more 'adult' or 'mature' or whatever phrase you want to use, blaming the 'childish' behavior of the forum on one or two or three people while at the same time doing the cyber-equivalent of pi$$ing on someone's grave is a pretty poor way to go about meeting that goal.
Like Paul said in the Spartacus' banning thread...let's all do some introspection and think before we hit the submit button...
As an aside, to John, if there are any bans in the future I, for one, would like to request that you lock the thread as soon as you make the announcement. Since I know you don't read all the posts in every thread, I'll PM this request to you, as well.