His conduct on the forum became incompatible with the role of Forum Guide.
For the more dim witted amongst us, perhap a concrete example might clarify things.
I do recall he occasionally offered to meet various members to settle differences "mano a mano", but I suspect, that was just his northern, well hard, up for it, humour.
The problem is Tim, we dont know how a forum advisor was supposed to act, or what constitutes acceptable conduct do we ?
Let me give you a hypothetical example. Lets assume that t2w wishes to encourage members of the public, to dabble in spreadbetting, for whatever reason, maybe its because they genuinely think punters can earn an easy second income, or maybe more cynically, because they recieve advertising revenue, and IB fees. The reasons dont really matter.
Lets assume a trader (me for example) is given the role of forum advisor. In that role, I continually express an opinion based on maybe personal experience that particular spread betting companies are unsuitable, for particular styles of trading. Would expressing that view be construed as acceptable conduct ? or would I be expected to tow the party line ?
I have no idea in what way his conduct was inappropriate, because I dont know what the role involved. For all I know, his role might have been to be rude to everyone and threaten to beat them up. I know thats a ridiculous example, but hopefully you take the point that I'm trying to make.
We've had this discussion previously, and you continually put forward the argument that a forum guide, or forum advisor badge lends the member no added credability (I argued that it does). Its also been argued that the views expressed by these individuals are just that, the views of individuals, not the official views of t2w.
I accept that there will be cases where the conduct of an individual brings the site into direpute and t2w needs to take action, and clearly BS was such a case. Its understandable that if a forum advisor was unduly argumentative, or breaking forum guidelines, or threatening other members with physical violence etc then this would need to be addresed.
However, I honestly dont know which specific breech cygnus noir was guilty of. Sure I could re read his posts, but you as the member of staff responsble for the introduction of the role, have a far better understanding of what the problem was. If you dont want to discuss it, or you think its private, or you simply cant be bothered, then just say so.
