Firstly, many thanks for explaining the reason on the moderating section:
"This user has ended up banned under the totting up process. He was given the lowest possible infraction for starting a thread about being banned from another thread but this was enough for a short holiday.
He was banned from the original thread for calling someone a prick."
For what it's worth, I think we're getting into very dangerous, draconian territory when people are banned from threads for simple, schoolyard insults.
There's plenty of threads that contain insults and I for one wouldn't want to see longstanding contributors to NSC denied speech for comparatively minor remarks.
Furthermore, unless I've missed something (which is quite possible), there's also no explanation of the totting up process which has led to a 'short holiday'.
In football, one can clearly see disciplinary points accrued by individual players and the likely sanctions that will be enforced for future transgressions.
Perhaps this is something that could be considered?
As "it simply isn't possible to moderate every post on every thread", one might hope that any visible incentive for poster self-moderation would be a help to mods.
Schoolyard insults should stay in the school yard (and comeonboro).
It’s great that the Mod’s deal with posters who resort to aggression, trolling, lurking or insults (AKA people who’ve lost the original argument). It’s one of the pluses that sets NSC apart.