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In any case, you get reinstated)

This time I decided to talk to the team, to see how they felt about me lifting Matthew's ban and basically put it to a vote. I thought that was the fairest way to do it?

When I consulted the team, about this new ban and whether they thought I should reinstate him again, they each told me what they thought. These are a few of their main points:

1) The thought of Matthew lurking in the background, at random and seemingly taking notes, to be used against them and at a later date, made them extremely uncomfortable and actually caused them to not feel as though they could 'speek freely' as a result.

2) His tendency to seemingly take up the opposite side of the argument, with only a select few of the research team, irrespective of how implausible, ridiculous and / or demonstrably wrong that opposing argument was, he would take that position. This gave the appearance of this not being a legitimate opinion that he was genuinely holding and more in line with it being deliberately targeted towards them and just to cause an argument, for reasons of... Who knows, more point scoring perhaps?

3) His tendency to do this and often, for them, made an already challenging environment on the page difficult to be in (keeping a page 100% free speech, is more difficult than you think? Causing tremendous strain on the admins and myself, but is also extremely rewarding because of this. Think of the wild west, but as chat page and you'll be pretty close to what it's like?) So due to his constant and repetitive back and forth with this select number of the admin, his whining when he was insulted by them, constant requests for the banning of tbose admin and the general drain this had on the team, this was reflected on the page and traffic dropped significantly.

4) His request to only view the page and not interact, nor communicate in any way, raised serious suspicions and concerns, as to his true motivations.

There were more points raised, but these were just a few of the keys. Many of the research team felt that, if he was allowed back on, then they would regrettably be forced to leave, because the page would no longer be the safe space it is, for people to say what they like?
Now remember, all this time, he had never been banned from the main Drops page, just on Chat. He's still able to post on Drops, those posts automatically are forwarded to the Chat page and so he is still able to read the comments on his posts and any replies to those comments.

This is just a ban for the chat page, a page he did not want to communicate on, just view what we were saying?

After hearing the points from the team, I then had a think about whether or not to agree to his request and after careful deliberation, I concluded that, because he didn't want to communicate with the group, that he just wanted to read what was being said and no one was sure why that was and his past actions raised serious concerns.

So for the following reasons, his wanting to lurk and not communicate. That this would actually have a chilling effect on the ability for people to be able to 'speak freely'. I had no choice but to consider this as his deliberate attempt at sabotaging the page and to affect how the page is run, in his favour.,

No one who visits Data Chats, should feel unable to state exactly what's on their minds, how they feel and how they think? But know that, when doing so, you should expect to be challenged, questioned and yes, on occasion mocked for your opinion. As long as you can handle that, then you'll be perfectly fine on our chat page, those who aren't tend to leave of their own accord. Matthew didn't want to be part of that, he didn't want to be involved and he likely had an ulterior motive for doing so than what he had stated.

This was the reason for his ban. Yet he stated that, because of this, we were no longer a 100% free speech platform and demanded that I state as such in future. That statement he has repeatedly made and that statement is 100% false.

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