What if you were unbanned and Greg posted a public apology?
I don't see me going back there either.
Nope. I told him for years the direction that the forum was taking and he didn’t listen then. Now that it’s a dumpster fire he wants to put it out. He had every chance to address the issues and didn’t.
As a first step among many, he needs to get rid of Charles as a moderator and he won’t. Charles is an anarchist with a soft spot for gadflies. That’s why he sees trolling as productive discussion. But he’s also a rabid conspiracy theorist, so he’s irrational. It’s this irrationality that makes him inconsistent with the application of the rules. He only sees what he wants to.
Kimmy, from the sounds of it, tried to make a difference and threw her hands up in exasperation because there’s no reasoning with someone like that.
So no. I won’t go back even if I’m unbanned. Especially because Greg takes the Facebook view that he OWNS your intellectual property that’s posted to his website. You’re not allowed to delete your posts because they don’t belong to you. They’re the property of the forum. I fundamentally disagree with that.