[quote:298509c8f3="somethingclever"]...................Honestly, I think you guys (and I say "you" cause I feel I have not earned the right to vote, not being a member for very long and certainly not an active poster) are better off banning as they appear, then deleting their offensive comments afterwards..........................[/quote:298509c8f3]

I am not keen on deleting their offensive comments after banning them - if they have been banned for that reason, then the comments should be left for people to see why they have been banned - although I am in favour of free speech and opposed to censorship, the right to free speech does not mean that the people being attacked have a duty to publish those opinions, hence banning is acceptable in a board environment. However, the other troll trick - the one which finally drove us off the old board - a form of "denial of service" attack by simply taking old posts on a long-dormant thread and posting an empty quote to each one (spending much otherwise useful computer/internet time - sad, sad people) then deleting those posts is simply a tidying up operation.