Expulsion

[Robert Vermaat]

This means we're all guest to the board admin (Jasper and Matt). Wouldn't it be more than reasonably to just let the moderating team decide, and we as guest, have to accept that by posting on 'their board'?

I wholeheartedly agree with the meaning behind what he says, but I’m going to argue a bit with his terminology.
I don’t think it is a good idea for us regular guys to consider ourselves as “guests” to the board. I believe it would be better if we were guided as if we had an “ownership interest” in RAT.

I see your point, but it's a very difficult one at the same time. Other members expressed a wish that the longer one was on board, the more 'protected' they wished to be. Other members even expressed a strong feeling of having certain rights of free speech, denying the right of moderators to alter what they wrote. That's of course the hard part, and that's why I like the idea of everyone (mods included) being 'guests' (for want of a better word) on this forum, without any 'citizen rights' - in the end it's the admin who can decide anything.

But at the same time, the 'partnership' is also a main point. All of us make this forum what it is - perhaps better worded as 'civic duties'? We don't make the rules (but sometimes we can influence them), but by making it a working partnership, the whole forum benefits, and so do we.