Yes, what's up with that? A user shouldn't just be banned from the forum without him actually telling why.

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_Shadow does have a tendency to be highly condescending, arrogant and rude.  That said, he's good at the game and isn't always as I described a sentence ago...  not sure what he might have done to get banned and wouldn't even have known if this post wasn't made. 

I think i know what he did, but that is not excuse for being perma-banned.

IIRC, he get in into a little discussion with Frogboy.

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/359540/page/1/#replies

If you can't take the heat - get outta the kitchen.

Wasnt he saying he was looking else where? so why unban him? Oh wait he was bullshitting I guess.

anyway I dont think the guy is should deserve a ban unless there are things we dont know.

Why was he banned in the first place?

Seems pretty outrageous if he was banned for the thread on pre-arranged teams...

I was/am admin on two SupCom related forums and both have different rules. I haven't seen a post from Shadow that would call for a ban IMHO. Sure, he has strong opinions and he isn't afraid to speak his mind but as far as I'm concerned nothing he said was meant as a personal attack or not within the limits of reasonable critizism - which doesn't mean he's right btw...

Frogboy, please unban Shadow. A ban without warning is a little harsh, even if you were understandably hurt by what he said. Shadow probably had only a bad day and was frustrated. Please consider giving him a second chance.

PS: Concerning GPGnet: It is quite possible that the decision not to use GPGnet came from or was supported by GPG. The employees who developed and maintained GPGnet have left GPG some time ago as far as I know.

If that post was a "bannable" material, damn, thats wrong. There r far worse posters on this foruns than shadow.

From what I have read here and on the gpg board, frog says that gpg decided to retire gpgnet before it started this program and they (gpg) never had any intention of using it on this project.  What their plans were before hooking up with stardock are unknown.

Same here, looks like both probably.

Although it is important to note he is banned from the boards (possibly only for a short time), he is more than able to play the game.  When he (shadow) isn't really contributing on the board (mostly snarky comments meant to antagonize/point out short comings), I am not sure it is a huge loss.

Perhaps its a matter of who you are talking to (as it appears to have been frogboy).

says _Shadow in response to frogboy here:  http://forums.demigodthegame.com/359540/page/1/#replies.  Eg he felt like Frogboy was being condescending to him, so he insulted the majority of the community to get his point across by being condescending himself.  That said, perma-ban seems a bit extreme and I doubt that would be the case. 

If it's a temp ban then it's fine and I don't feel bad for shadow. I think people need to realize Frogboy doesn't take the thick-skinned approach to these boards that say ghostcrawler does on the wow boards.  He doesn't like when people use a hostile tone and you need take it down a notch when speaking to him.

If it's perma it's way overboard and I think that kind of draconic punishment is bad for the discussions and atmosphere here.  Some players get excited because they genuinely care about the game, not because they're trying to troll.