My mistake Gabon. I should have paid more attention and I didn't mean to put words in your mouth.
Anyway, I post (you call it complaining) because it's all I can do. I don't think he should have banned, and while I can understand the decision, I still don't agree with it. And when I express my opinion and people (including the administration) basically say "f*ck off if you don't like it" and it feels like that any reasonable case for revoking the decision will be ignored, I try to think of what I can do. I realize there's not a damn thing and it's quite frustrating. I'd chance that it's the same for most others as well.
The administration should have posted something like this:
"Ok, we understand you guys are upset because of the complications with the rules, but at CC we want to promote absolute protection of privacy. Even if DM was asked to post the message, it still could have caused harm to someone on the forum besides himself. We are clarifying the rules as we speak to correct this problem in the future, but given DM's past offenses and the possible severity the posting of personal information, we gave him a temporary 1 month ban. Since the rule was not clearly defined before, we avoiding giving him a harsher sentence which would follow if he had blatantly broke rules for the sake of causing trouble. If you would like to discuss this decision, please contact XXX and they will answer your questions and consider your suggestions.
Thank you,
Random CC Mod/Admin"
Professionalism and courtesy go a long way in businesses. People still would have complain after a post like this, but I'd wager there would be far less people and people would have gotten over it far sooner. But go ahead and keep telling us to leave and/or shut up. I suppose that might work too.
