Hi Royston adn LOl,
Thanks for responding.
Royston, you are right that the moderator has an e-mail address for you as that is one of the current checks they have, but it dosent ensure that the moderator/forum has a valid postal address. The use of credit/debit card automatically gives a Home/billing address, which would tie any comments to a real address and not simply an email. This would enable an auditable trail back to a person and thus they could not so easily abuse the system and expect to get away with it. They would have to take full responsibility for the remarks they make and any consequences threof.
Lol, Part of the problem of recent weeks was that a contributor was barred, but simply reregisterd under a different email address. It is unlikely that a contributer would go to the trouble and expense of seting up multiple creit card accounts simply to allow them to abuse a forum.
Your solution would work in terms of being able to filter out at your own choice contribution from a particular forum name, but it does not place any additional responsibility on the abuser to conform to etiquet or common law. It has been aluded by both the moderator and some other forum users, that certain individuals did register multiple forum names to evade the Moderators right to bar. These same individuals continued to abuse the forum and some of its members under different forum names and of course email addresses for quite some extended time. It devalued the forum in many peoples eyes.
Thier actions proved that some people cannot be trusted to act reasonably. They were dishonest in so far that they refused to accept the moderators rightful sanctions.
My proposal would I beleieve retain the good points of the forum and allow the ugly points to weeded out in the future.