I know you cant really discuss bans which is why I didn't mention specific members because I could rattle off a whole list it I wanted too. I had a period of inactivity early this year due to not having a computer for a while and when i got back to posting a lot of valuable members were just gone It's sad really, now I just spend a lot of time in Apprentice helping out noobz and stuff because as you said it's much harder to find good discussions and such. My timezone probably doesn't help either though
I know it sucks the mods have gone ban crazy everyday I see a new person banned threads that aren't even a week old have multiple banned members in them I visit a few fourms and I've never seen the amount of banned people we have