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March 10th, 2009 - Xbox 360 Gaming World Announces First Member Suspension
Today Xbox 360 Gaming World announced the suspension of the first member of its site since the formation over two years ago.
It is with regret that we inform our valued members of the banning of Crystal Shadow. As you may or may not be aware, Crystal Shadows posts were beginning to have a negative effect on the forum and its users, they were also not contributing anything to site, be gaming related, comedy related or otherwise. In the beginning we all saw him as an extremely articulate individual who was involved in a very interesting situation.
Unfortunately, as time went on, it became more than apparent that his situation was becoming more and more, how shall we say, “elaborate”.
Also, by his own admission, he stated to the Mods that he was using this site (and its users) as a “testing ground” to see how he would need to reword his letters based on our reactions to his posts. This we felt was an abuse of the forum (and its users) of the good faith upon which this forum was founded.
"After numerous negotiations with him, some on the forum and others in PMs between him, Pogue and myself outside it, it was clear that Shadow was unwilling/unable to heed our advice/suggestions/warnings. We are a very open forum and we all encourage/enjoy debates on a wide range of topics, but in Shadows’ case we felt he was pushing our good nature too far, leaving us with no option but to ban him." stated Skin, Director of European Affairs and Grand Moff at Xbox 360 Gaming World.
We would like to thank all our users for taking the moral high (ok, maybe “mid”) ground with Shadows’ postings and avoiding a delicate situation descending into something much more unpleasant.
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