Good Decision Lee, a timeout is a good solution imho. As for Max, yeah he's an annoyance, spouts off a lot of garbage, hijacks threads, and make comments that are and can be taken as rude and off the wall, however... he does not deliberately make direct mean spirited personal attacks.

I am rather glad Lee didn't ban Max and as he's pointed out, hasn't banned Squirt either. He has given him a timeout like anyone would do to their own wayward child who simply had a bad cranky day.

Considering how the attack was made, it was a good decision and instead of blasting Lee for attempting to maintain order, and instead of defending rude behaviour from one who started the Brittany Spears bullshit thread, Lee should be commended for taking a potentially explosive and unnecessary drama off the boards for the parties to cool off.

my 2 cents.