How Dawkins made me a better person

Hi Den,This reads like an open letter rather than a debate thread proposal, so I'll put it in Coffee House.

Thread copied here from the How Dawkins made me a better person thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.

Hi Theodoric,I don't yet know if you continue in this vein in this thread, I'm only up to Message 39, but please stop. Stick to the issues and the facts.Everyone else, same message. Please extend Den every courtesy.

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	EvC Forum Director

You have to work pretty hard to get banned. What usually happens is just short suspensions. A 24 hour suspension is what usually happens to those who have temporarily become just a little too worked up, or who think the Forum Guidelines don't apply to them. Longer suspensions happen to those who are a bit more creative, such as the 4-week suspension handed out to Bolder-dash, who after losing his posting privileges in the Biological Evolution forum posted his response to the Report discussion problems here: No.2 thread, in essence saying, "Oh yeah? Well make me!" But actual banning, in essence a permanent suspension, is rare, though the spammers who show up here with regularity are almost always banned. Oh, and David Mabus, he gets banned immediately each time he creates a new account.Concerning idiocy, this isn't against the Forum Guidelines. EvC Forum is not here to protect you from idiocy, but rather to provide a venue for rational discussion where people can demonstrate just what is sense and what is nonsense. In other words, get to work.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director