[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] scotchua:
Sincerely, thank you for understanding my point. You are right, it would have been better to run it by a moderator before posting a lengthy biased reply by a member who was banned and then created two other accounts to continue fighting after being banned and warned that creating secondary accounts can lead to being permanently banned.

For anyone interested, I have not written At0mAng a reply yet because I was actually trying to have a life, writing papers for my classes, spent time at work, then i went to the movies with a friend. Hopefully everyone here can understand why a volunteer would actually have higher priorities than dealing with the rants and accusations of disgruntled member that didn't actually even come up until after they didn't get their ban appealed.

To all who are interested, I have no personal ties to any of the members involved, and I am not the one who banned him. I have just served as a point of contact as I wanted to give him a warning that creating secondary accounts could get him permanently banned, and I did not want that. Thus far I see absolutely not mistakes made by any moderators in this situation, however, all decisions related to this matter will not be finalized until they can be run by the site administrator.

Until then, please be respectful to each other and try to stick to commentary about the roms themselves and not about the people.

If you feel that we have made a decision in error please feel free to contact the site administrator. It will likely take a few days to get a reply simply due to the volume of information which she will have to sort through when she gets to the office. It has been a bit of a mad house this weekend. I explained why only one person was banned earlier. Please read that explanation as it contains all of the details that are relevant to this situation.

For the forum rules please see:

http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?f=490

I have explained in sufficient detail that there was an argument between several parties. They were told to be civil or else get banned for 7 days. Only one member elected to continue by taunting, and as such they were the only one banned. Most of the comments between the members have been deleted as they are junk in the thread, and fuel for more arguing. They are all still present and can be reviewed by the admin and all of the moderators, nothing was permanently removed.

No need for a petition, the decision will not be affected by public pressure. Currently, At0mAng is banned for only 6 more days.

This shows a little bit of ignorance on your part, the site is in no way benefiting from people hashing out their disagreements in public. It would have been better for all parties to simply discuss their disagreements in private, or at least more appropriately. Moderators are here to moderate. These type of situations are exactly why we are here.

With all due respect, it would be best to leave any further discussion of these matters to the moderators. There is nothing inherently problematic in your post, however, given the volatile nature of the situation it would be best for both you and ace to ignore the commentary as much as possible, and as such I would appreciate the spirit of cooperation.