> "Just stop" sounds like a warning to me. A warning of what? If a person on the street tells you to "stop", your first reaction would be to ask "stop what?",

> "Just stop" sounds like a warning to me. A warning of what? If a person on the street tells you to "stop", your first reaction would be to ask "stop what?", and the answer is "stop chewing gum", to which you reply "but there's nothing wrong with chewing gum", and then you are thrown to jail for all time. You see what's wrong here, don't you? First of all a warning should convey the punishment; maybe a fine, maybe jail time, etc. Secondly, you can't assume that anybody that tells you to stop doing something is some kind of authority. In my case Olav never made it clear he had the power to ban me, nor that he was contemplating using it. Thirdly, saying "there's nothing wrong with chewing gum" is argumentation, it's not a second offence. And yeah, surely Olav might have been annoyed by comments I made in other forums, but comments in other forums shouldn't be used as reasons for a ban bugzilla. I always provided value in bugzilla for years, and was banned for a couple of comments. Seems a bit unfair. I know this is tedious, but these guys don't leave any alternative. I couldn't comment in bugzilla any more, I didn't receive an email notification, and nobody from bugmaster@gnome.org wanted to hear my case. What am I supposed to do? If GNOME was handled properly, none of this would have happened.