All I will say is that if it hadn't been for B77, I would have been at a total loss and alone during the first half of December. To be able to continue to correspond easily with people I knew rather than via cumbersome e-mails was a boon.
Yes.
BUT. There are very likely TORCers who haven't been banned but who have stopped posting after the latest Ban Fest, and I'm sure they feel bad too and would love to have an opportunity to talk this over with others as well. And then there are those left behind without anyone to talk to because their friends are all banned. And then there are the lurkers, even. But I don't see anyone jumping to defense bending the rules for them. Being banned from TORC should not be a free pass to b77. This is not what this board is about. Rules suck sometimes, but if we don't have them, we can all go home.
I would suggest the following:
That we give the admins the power to immediately register a poster here if they are banned on TORC. It must be a unanimous vote by the admins, and that is the only 'emergency situation' allowed.
I trust the admins.
I trust them too. But I'm sorry, I do not think the admins should make such a decision.
It's the compassionate thing to do - and I'd hate to be on a board where the rules do not come from the heart. If they don't, then the rules need changing.
Rules that come from the heart can still be wrong. Trusting one's heart is romantic, yet not always the right choice.