Let me try to explain one more time my reasoning for banning.

I personally don't care about name calling, BUT if someone else is offended, then that will be considered a point against the person doing the name calling, and they will eventually get warned if it continues, although banning on that grounds takes a while.

Have rarely received complaints about anyone's behavior on this forum. The few times I did, I took action in one form or another.

What I protest against is when someone makes deductions about someone's character that are defamatory, and then they are warned and corrected, but they continue to do it.

Under this circumstance, the communication becomes nothing more than intended harm.

This is what happened to me.

I was slandered, I corrected several times, but was slandered again. So, being that I have to play the role as a third person as well as I can, I considered the first several times "warnings", and eventually, when it continued, I felt the need to remove the offenders.

So...

If you call someone names and they don't complain, don't expect anyone to get banned.

If you call someone names and I receive complaints about it, then you will eventually get warned and, if it continues, you will get banned.

If you defame someone's character and they don't complain, don't expect anyone to get banned.

If you defame someone's character then I receive complaints about it, they will be expected to make corrections (object) to the misrepresentations. If it continues and I receive more complaints, then, after being warned, you may be banned.

So, what you can deduce is this, and this has been my position all along, except that I've begun being more strict about it lately:

Name calling is considered harmless unless I get complaints.

Slander is considered harmless unless I get complaints. If I do, then warnings will come and banning may occur if slander continues.

When slander happens to me, I have to try and act in the third person and make an objective judgement call.

In my case, all three parties (this includes SoSick) had slandered me, were warned, and then were banned after being warned and after I posted corrections. It is as if I filed a complaint, posted a correction, received more slander, filed another complaint, and then banning occurred.

I hope that makes my position clear enough.