He was repeatedly used as the butt of a large groups jokes, for no reason in particular, other than that he made comments that in retrospect aren't that eccentric, instead they were repeatedly dragging threads off topic rather than actually offering anything to the debate, often unlike Scholesy himself.
Surely that is worse than holding some slightly eccentric views, which is the opposite of how this has panned out.
Seriously, what point does posting "modric" in lots of threads have other than trying to evoke a reaction? Surely that is more blatant wummery than anything scholesy can be accused of?
He was used as the butt of jokes because of his silly views which were in some cases worthy of piss taking. FOr example, when he claimed that it's impossible for players to improve technically once above the age of six (or whatever age it was).
This has always happened on here. It happened to the Chief when he claimed Kieran Richardson was as talented as Ryan Giggs. It happened to me when I claimed Heinze was a rubbish defender (whos laughing now, cockfaces?). It's hardly vindictive or nasty in the grand scheme of things.
Were you in here crying injustice when everyone used to respond to Gillespie's posts by posting what they planned to have for dinner? Or when he was perma banned much in the same way as Scholesy after throwing a hissy fit?
Handing out 50 odd infractions and upsetting half the forum is hardly a wise move when the route of the problem is one poster bringing attention on themselves and then not being able to deal with it.
Supposing we had decided to take that route, spend significant amounts of free time dealing with the mess that insues, and inevitably someone ends up incurring an infraction that sees them banned, for posting the word "Modric"...can you HONESTLY say there wouldn't be a massive thread in here crying injustice? can Brad HONESTLY say he wouldn't be in here spearheading it?
Plus at the end of it all, Scholesy would still be here, probably still getting mocked, and almost certainly still posting the provocative drivel which invites said idiocy upon himself in the first place. This way he's either gone, or gets a genuine chance to start over underneath the radar, and debate football without being hounded.