I seem to remember that he was considered for a 30 day suspension (UT can better answer this); but, not banning. There are mitigating circumstances in coberst's [Chuck Oberst's] case. A few excerpts compiled from his profiles elswhere:
Real Name: Chuck Oberst
Gender and Age: Male, 75
E-mail Address:
coberst@hotmail.com
Website Address:
http://www.septemberscholar.com
Location: Franklin, NC
Interests: "I am a retired engineer. I have a good bit of formal education but my twenty years of self-learning represent my most important educational achievement. My engineering degree made it possible for me to feed my family but my self-learning made it possible for me to feed "my soul"."
"As I mentioned I am an autodidactic. The self-learner is a
lonely individual because it is very difficult to find people interested in critical thinking and the critical self-consciousness to indulge such a pass-time."
We have here a septuagenarian, with mental faculties largely intact, lonely; yet, searching for relevancy and meaning as he reconciles his own mortality. He's been in the mainstream, provided for others, and has a lifetime of experience though his judgment may now be impaired. He has the common sense to spread his correspondence among many forums as elderly parents would spread their burdens among several children so as not to overwhelm any one of them. At times he overestimates how much they can bear; but, at least he's trying.
His website address is no longer functional. He seems to have lost that and notice that he uses a hotmail address. I commend the Cellar administration for cutting dwellar coberst some slack. I'm confident that they can determine when coberst becomes out of control rather than merely a nuisance and ban him (so he doesn't get hate mail at his email address). Until then, there's the ignore button.
The Cellar: Compassion is the name of that tune.
References:
http://www.sociopranos.com/forums/ed...ername=coberst
http://profiles.tigweb.org/coberst