"You want access to past products - contact the store here." Err... and exactly how are you supposed to do that? If they do an IP Ban, then you will not get to the site period. If they ban by username - what is to stop you making a new account? I do not like this current trend. Frankly, the forums and the store should be seperate entities. If it were a case of forums.renderosity.com you could ban access to the forums. while still allowing access to store. for instance. But hey! That's not the case. I absolutely positively dislike the idea that warnings never expire. I'm sorry, but that is just wrong. It will punish someone who is a model 'Citizen' for 99.9% of the time, but has a total blowout every once in a while - provoked or otherwise. Basically, Member X who is a member and who has a screaming fit with someone and gets warned in say... January 2004, then has another fit around December 2004 and gets another warning and in November 2005 they flip their lid again and find themselves banned from the site for being disruptive. At the same time, Member Y who is not a model citizen and who 99.9% of the time skirts close to the edge, provokes people into huge arguments on 3 occasions in a single month and gets banned. Yes, we have one person less to scream in the forums, BUT... Member X doesn't deserve to have those warnings hanging over their head for the rest of eternity. Member X and Member Y are nothing alike - but they may both end up banned the same way, only it will take longer for one. It should be handled like points on a license. After a certain time, the point (warning) expires. If it didn't, a lot less people would be driving now if they were all cumulative.

Silke