Ahh, thank you for the clarification. I was up early so did not have time to read through the thread in more detail (skim reading). I thought it was the other way round. I would not condone any person telling/spreading lies about any one else on the forum ....
If you have the time, have a look at the (now rather edited) thread in question - or simply look at what is reproduced in message #71 in this thread ...
...As I understand it, BAS made a statement which, by virtue of a qualification it contained ("with a fixed impedance") was indisputably true. However, the other person responded not just by saying that the statement was incorrect (which would have been bad enough), but by saying that BAS has "LIED" (just like that, in capital letters). During the subsequent exchanges, he was seemingly not prepared to admit his mistake or retract the accusation, let alone apologise. Had I been in BAS's position, I certainly would have felt aggrieved, although I'm not sure that I would have actually withdrawn from the forum!
.... however, there does seem to be a certain irony in someone like Ban demanding an apology from someone else.
Indeed - and, as a number of us have observed, definitely ironic that he should leave for having been put in such a position, when there had been so many previous occasions when he could not have been surprised if he had been 'thrown out'! Whenever I have had 'powers' within a forum, there has always been a "three (sometimes two) strikes and you're out" policy. BAS probably had hundreds of 'strikes', even just in terms of 'public warnings' in the forum, yet was still "in"!
...However, he also quite often seemed to view this forum has his personal mouth piece. Any opinion or viewpoint that challenged his own or questions that he deemed too stupid to warrant a respectful reply were often met with a needless and uncalled for confrontational approach. None of which was good for the forum or the community that keeps it alive.
All agreed. Most on-line discussion groups have a "BAS" or three, but they usually don't survive if they persist.
Ban has to accept that this is a public forum where there will be a whole gamut of views and opinions from the informed, ill-informed and so on and so forth. Regardless of whether he has a supposed condition or not, no one person has the right to treat the forum as their own personal domain and that their opinion is the law.
Again, agreed - and that has often been said.
However, if that behaviour is not managed, then an open public forum like this can begin to become exclusive. New people can be immediately be put off ever posting again or as others have pointed out, join to specifically bait said posters. It can be ultimately destructive for a very useful public forum and community such as this.
Exactly. I, and others, have made that point repeatedly over the years - and, as the proportion of his posts which were (good) answers to (electrical) questions gradually diminished over those years, some came to question whether his continued participation was, on balance, an asset or an encumbrance to the forum.
Kind Regards, John