Banning someone who is disruptive to the constructive flow of information, which includes spirited debate, is never wrong.

When you have individuals who have consistently taken threads off track, created drama for little or no reason, argued for the sake of argument (rather than challenging a viewpoint with sound logic or sensible reasoning) or cluttered up otherwise useful threads with noise, there is no value in maintaining that person as a contributor to the community.

It sucks when *anyone* has to be banned. But when you have someone, such as a small handful of people who used to post here, that in spite of repeated warnings can't behave and continue disrupt the interaction of others here, then his/her contribution does not benefit the community and banning them is most definitely an appropriate act.

I frankly have found the GWW community a MUCH better place to participate in the past few months.