Not taking sides here, but forums don't run on thank yous happy faces. The costs are not at all cheap. I don't know the circumstances of why you were banned and don't want to. It is not my business. However if you go to the trouble of creating a forum with all the costs and effort it takes, and invite folks to join. It makes sense that you as the person paying the bills decide how it runs. Alien Origin, I think you mentioned elsewhere you were considering starting your own forum. If you do, I imagine you will make the rules to suit your thoughts and goals, and that is your prerogative. But I bet there will be some who don't like your rules, dont follow them to your liking and you may have to ban them.
People are different. Forums are different,
Not taking sides here, but forums don't run on thank yous happy faces. The costs are not at all cheap. I don't know the circumstances of why you were banned and don't want to. It is not my business. However if you go to the trouble of creating a forum with all the costs and effort it takes, and invite folks to join. It makes sense that you as the person paying the bills decide how it runs. Alien Origin, I think you mentioned elsewhere you were considering starting your own forum. If you do, I imagine you will make the rules to suit your thoughts and goals, and that is your prerogative. But I bet there will be some who don't like your rules, dont follow them to your liking and you may have to ban them.
People are different. Forums are different,
My suggestion is to just let it go and enjoy your time here. Leta is pretty tolerant of us all. So long as you be reasonably polite and don't troll anyone I expect you will enjoy Alien Babble.
Like I said before, it is not a nice look with the members of one forum bagging another forum.
It has been my experience that not a lot of good comes of it.
Anyway, like I said, I am no one here. Just my opinion.
Now Back to me old Pal Ezekiel. :)
My forum is already up still a little work to do....Hosting is not that expensive mine is less than $5 a month. Where it gets expensive is when you rent servers or VPN's......You can get a domain and hosting from most places for less than $20...I pay monthly instead of yearly, my yearly costs would be about $40 a year....I have two of the major forum softwares V Bulletin and Invision Powerboard....Phpbb, SMF, MYBB are all free and come with most C Panel hosting plans. I can get along with most anyone, it's when people come across as a smart ass or know it all is when I have a problem, oh and whine asses.