Banning members for inviting people to another site seems like a poor strategy to me. If they were cool with it than most people would continue to use both sites. Instead, they're losing people (or loosing people as I see too often) that will never be back and pissing people off. I like their board and think that Freak did/does a good job improving it over the years but I dislike the disabling of the PM's to control their members. That seems very North Korean to me. Not saying that's why OE got banned, was just thinking about all the other people who have.
I agree with this. I've got nothing personal against VN, but don't ever really go over there because of that crap.
Permaban? Have no idea what happened but OE's last post was early evening last night followed by Freak and Bill making a cameo in that thread.