Reply #164: You might consider, as a gesture of good faith, an amnesty for those stalwarts who have been banned

[Stinky The Clown]

To be sure, some trolls were *rightly* banned. In fact, that is mostly true. But there have been a noticeable number of good, contributing posters who have been banned, some for no apparent reason.

Create a review board of sorts, open up an avenue to apply for reinstatement, vet the applicants, and give the worthy among them back their names and their post counts.

There are charges in this thread of uneven rule enforcement. I am in no position to know if that's true or not, but it sure as hell is a commonly held view, leading me to fall back on the old smoke/fire paradigm.