imabench should not have been banned

I accept. Note the ban is only temporary, per airmax's words. I will start off my arguments since this is only a three round debate. My opponent may refute and argue whenever he wishes. Just one simple compelling argument: If Airmax thinks it's right, then by God, it's right. ===The terms of service== The terms of service, or TOS, of debate.org is something everybody must follow. This includes imabench. However, he has violated these terms of service rules multiple times, and thus deserves a ban. I state the DDO TOS: "Any disregard for these rules or any of the other terms or guidelines may result in termination of a member's account." [1] There are many examples of when imabench violated the TOS. I will use four main rules and show when imabench violated them. I. "No use of profanities or swear words" There were many times where imabench used profanities or swear words in the forum, poll, and debate sections. For example, in Mikal's "farewell imabench" thread, he used multiple swear words [2]. The quotes are below, but the swear words are censored by me. Post #4 "[censored], who told ya?" Post #10 "If you were in the PM you'd know why that is completely [censored] impossible." Post #57 "Then how come mikal and two other members both immediately thought that I was basically[censored] when they first saw the new policy?" These are all in the same thread. Notice these three posts took place in the first two pages. He did asterisk most of his swear words, but even clearly implying a swear word is still against the TOS. Thus, his breaking of this rule makes a ban justifiable. II. "No personal attacks against other members or another member's opinions." For imabench's breaking of this rule, we do not need to look any further than the weekly stupid. What this show does is picks ten "dumb" quotes and explains why they are so dumb, and then usually attacks the member. I love it, but it is against the TOS. For example, I extracted some of the things that imabench said in his latest episode [3]. At the 0:45 mark, he shows bubbatheclowns profile and says, "not him, but well, people don't like him" which is a personal attack on bubbatheclown, who is a member of DDO. At the 3:02 mark, he says "I don't get how some people are so [censored] up in the head," which is an attack on another member's opinion, although it is debatable if it is correct. Watch the episode yourself and you will see what I am talking about. If we look further than the weekly stupid, then we can see he insults people in their own debates. Once he went up with cooldudebro on Euthanasia, and they exchanged some questionable names in their debate, sparked by imabench calling cooldudebro's scenario "idiotic [4]" In fact, he even called con "G-od [censored] stupid" and told him "your IQ is about 12" and then finished it off with a nice "it is just something invented by an idiot (you." Thus, he has broken two of the four rules I will present. III. No use of racial, sexual, or religious slurs. This one was hard to find. For racial and sexual, we have to dig back to his debates. In this one [5] he called pro a "retarded [censored] pirate," which while it may not be racial, it is definitely sexual (referring to the swear he used.) Aside from it being a slur, it is extremely impolite to pro to call him that name. Then he goes on to say [censored] please, which while likely not meant "in that way," it is still a HUGE racial slur. Then, in his goodbye thread, he used a slur that is used to represent a gay on bubbatheclown [2]: " if he wants to act like a dumb little [censored then let him..." Imabench does not use too many slurs in a meaningful way, but he did multiple times, thus obviously breaking the terms of use/service. Now, we go on to the fourth rule that imabench has broken. IV. No threats or implications thereof. For this rule, we don't need to look any further than his ten last posts [2]. "So help me god, if you or anyone else says a THING about what I said in that PM I will personally come to your house kick your teeth in" Kick your teeth in... does that sound like a threat? Yes, it does. Airmax's reasoning on banning imabench: "It's a temp ban for using a racial/homophobic/ethnic slur (in this case a homophobic one)... he'll be unbanned on Sunday.. and using the term is a violation of the TOS.. and I banned him specifically for violating that rule." In conclusion of my arguments, imabench violated four rules in the TOS (and many more as I will state later) which resulted in his ban. Thus, by breaking the TOS, he deserved a banning. I will add more rebuttals and arguments in the second round. I hand this debate over to pro and wish him luck. [1] http://www.debate.org... [2] http://www.debate.org... [3] [4] http://www.debate.org... [5] http://www.debate.org...