Matthew,

Let it be known from the git go that this post of mine is being made without having consulted anyone before it being made.

I was really shocked to hear about your ban of Mark 79, surely one of the best and the brightest to ever brighten the pages of CathInfo.  To bury the ban in a thread like this and to add your insulting remarks about Mark 79 only makes it worse.  I  pray that this ban is extremely short lived and comes with a sincere apology.

In our modern society -- and this has been going on for some time -- our boys in school and our men at work are being feminized whether they realize it or not.  The boys can't play so rough and tumble as in years past and when they do play they are forced to play with the girls; even their language is excessively curtailed.  Often the men in the workplace are being forced directly and or indirectly to speak and act with great political correctness and many are on pins and needles around women in the workplace because they know that they can easily get charged (often falsely) with some sort of sɛҳuąƖ harassment or worse.  Surely, CathInfo is a step above our modern society.  Surely, its administrator can allow someone to stay on regardless of whether that someone is at peace or not with the administrator's decision.  Surely, the administrator is strong enough to take some counter criticism such as Mark's (and not delete it) from time to time, even if it is rather strong.

Isn't it a good thing if there is a tough minded boy in a public school who stands up and constantly verbally puts down the boy who likes coming to school every day with pink hair and earrings?  Isn't it a good thing for a man in the public workplace to take an ongoing Christian stand against the open sodomite and or otherwise anti-Catholic in his and his fellow workers' midst.  Why show tolerance to the deviant while punishing the strong among us who make a good example for us by always reminding us of the deviancy so that the rest of us don't more easily become complacent to the deviancy or in your own words, "content with the status quo."?  Please apply to what I'm saying here to the case of Mark 79.

Even if Mark 79 were obsessed (whatever that means) with Poche and I'm not saying he is, well so what!  Some of us are so sick of Poche that we are silently rooting Mark's responses on.  How do you know that Mark is not a sort of a proxy for many of us?!  In any event it is obvious that Mark's responses follow Poche's posts.  They are a reaction to Poche rather than some sort of preemptive action.  If Poche wants to post back in his defense let him do it.  Why does he need to have a "big brother" Matthew take a club and ban Mark 79 with it?

It is ironic that you say Mark 79 is obsessed with Poche when no doubt some of us wonder with no small reason whether or not you are obsessed with Mark's "obsession."  

How in the world can you state that, "Everyone else on CathInfo is content with the status quo."?  Do you live in each of our head's "rent free" to make such an assertion?!  There are hundreds (or is it thousands?) on CathInfo.  I am one of them and thus I am part of the "everyone" you refer to and I, for one, am definitely not content with your above referenced status quo?

For goodness sake Matthew please allow Mark 79 (Mark 7:9), the man whose words pack more punch than a trusty M-79 back on to CathInfo.  If even Novus Ordo Poche can at least stand up to Mark on his own why can't tradCat Matthew?  Finally, I would ask that if you insist on continuing your ban of Mark that you do a clear OP on the subject rather do it under the cover of darkness as it were by having the notice of the ban buried in the middle of this thread.

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If you really see Poche as a victim of bullying, why have you been silent up until now?  From that perspective, you just stood by and allowed the bullying.

Personally, I do not think it makes any sense to frame the situation that way.  This is a trad forum and Poche is manifestly not a trad.  He is an unwelcome invader, not a victim.

Mark79 got banned??

When/where did that happen?

I don't see any announcement, so I guess it was announced within one of the already extant threads?

Can someone direct me to it?

...at least afford Mark the opportunity to present his case. 

Matthew is right too.  Forums do not function well when members are unable to respect the decisions of the owner/moderator and repeatedly express their dissatisfaction.  Mark79 has, in effect, been spamming the forum with his (valid) complaints against Poche and it is disruptive of forum discussions.  We are seeing one thread after another derailed into a discussion of Poche.  It is necessary for Matthew to do something about this.  It is his responsibility to keep order (to the extent that it exists) on this forum.

The problem is not that Mark79 is wrong about Poche, but that his response is analogous to vigilante justice.  We can understand Mark as "taking the law into his own hands".  For Matthew to ignore this would set a dangerous precedent.