whether or not usaloyal posted insults to people is mostly irrelevant anyway, as that isn't why she was banned.
She was banned, more specifically, for repeatedly (emphasis on repeatedly, cant stress that enough) posting personal information and didn't give two shits about pretty much one of the only easy to follow rules here. I can't even tell you guys how many times we told her to stop. The straw that broke the camels back was related to posting stuff about someones name, personal real life facts, facebook stalking them, posting the names of family members - names of family members that have nothing to do with this site, watching videos of said family members, talking about it here, etc.
It's important to emphasize, that although there was a single culmination leading to usaloyals ban, she had an extensive history of breaking the personal information rule and did so shamelessly over and over again.
She was by far the worst offender in this whole debacle.
Regarding christie, the person who she posted information of knew about the post the wholllllle time and never reported it. It essentially didn't bother the person at all to have this information posted on here. If one is fully aware of a post that contains bits of their personal information, and they don't report it, it's pretty silly to perma ban someone for posting something that you apparently didn't mind having on this site. It would be like banning someone for saying captain billys name is bill. For some people, posting their name isn't ok. For some, they don't mind.
Usaloyal was well aware of what was and wasn't ok to post, due to her extensive history with this particular person.
And then you add that on top of the fact that again, (and more importantly) that our dealing with this personal information war has escalated more recently. It's not something we deal with a lot because 99% of the people on here aren't middle aged psychopaths that have an obsessive history with people that don't even post here anymore. But the more and more it happened the more we were getting involved in how we dealt with the issue.
I still don't like deleting and editing posts. But that's just my personal philosophy, and if I can find a reason for something to stay as is, I will find it. This creates a lot of hesitancy on our part (especially a year ago) to do anything other than editing/deleting of posts.
We don't ban lightly and we certainly don't perma ban lightly. Again, 2 people in 5 years is a pretty big testament to that. And it's not something I should really even have to state as it's rather self evident.
To be perma banned, you need to have a lot of negative qualities. In addition to constant severe rule breaking, you need to demonstrate an unwillingness to change. You need to be incapable of improving your presence here, or having a modicum of respect for one of our only rules. In essence, you need to be a lost cause.
Usaloyal was a lost cause.
Maineman was a lost cause.
Neither over protracted periods ever showed signs of letting up on their awful and unwelcome behavior here.
