Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26986589-20161029210635/@comment-26397825-20161104222454

The "It's clear he was not going to improve" thing was because despite the admins giving him that last chance, he was still negative and toxic to the community, as well as confrontational about it. He may have just skirted the line to make sure he didn't do anything directly against the wiki policies, but that doesn't change the fact that he was a negative presence on the wiki.

Since he was banned, the wiki has been a much less toxic place and our standing with other places like Reddit has been slowly improving. Now, Live was not the only reason we were toxic, nor is he the only reason other places had a problem with us. Our standing is not imroving because he was banned. However, it is one of the reasons why it is slowly improving.

There are of course people who still dislike us. But at least we're no longer greeting anons who have crazy theories with 'that's a fucking stupid theory'.

Also, the freedom of speech thing....people seemto seriously misunderstand what freedom of speech is. The actual defintion is:

The right, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to express beliefs and ideas without  unwarranted government restriction.

Purposefully being aggressive and treating people like he did warranted the admins of the wiki to step in, as he was interfering with peoples ability to come to this place and enjoy the wiki and the show with like minded people. You can say whatever you like, but when it actively interferes with peoples ability to enjoy what they are doing to the degree that they decide to give up on it entirely (or you tell them to commit suicide, or do something along those lines) then it becomes warranted for the admins to step in and stop your behaviour.