Mack,
I have never changed the banning settings on my vB nor did I do anything different with your ban, than any other banned members. I simply looked up your username chose ban. My intent was not to harm, my intent was to ban (The same way I ban everyone else) which as you said you have no problem with and is my perogative. I see no reason to make special allowances for banned members that I feel were justifiably banned. Everyone gets the same ban, this situation is not unique to you.
STVP
As for casting threats - I mistakenly at first assumed that those moderators of the forum had something to do with its creation. My post should have read - "Those responsible for the website will no longer be welcome here" - I did not ban any members of REWM for participating at that forum, nor did I mean to imply that I would. I left the post unedited except for spelling so that what you are referencing could be read.
I will post here and keep it on record - but will edit afterwards so that future members dont think that this is my position.
I originally said
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Just so everyone knows, if you moderate a forum or (especially) administrate a forum that is nothing more than a rippoff of REW forums you will no longer be welcome here.
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I'm not asking you to boycot useful information, I saying that willingly participating in websites that commit theft can cost you your membership.
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I can only assume these are the 2 bullying posts you were referring to. I will ammend as that was not my intent and probably should have waiting until I was thinking clearer before I posted. I will admit my first 2 pages of posts were posted in a very frusterated state of mind.
As for intellectual property specifics, there were descriptions and titles unique to REW that were copied
You are right, I dont own domain over "web design" or "search engines" as category or forum names but my names were
Real Estate and Search Engines
Real Estate and Web Design
Copied verbatim, with the substructes in identicle order as my forum, along with forum descriptions that were copied as well. Descriptions that I wrote, and do not occur anywhere else on the web. In fact (Although I would not waste the time doing the research) I would venture to guess that my forum was the first to use the exact category names used above as well as my descriptions. If you would like to find them to disprove me, I will happily admit that I did not do a thurough check.
I do still think that the structure (Although you have renamed the forums) is a ripoff of my structure, and am not satisfied with the changes you have made, I am satisfied that this forum's creation has been exposed for what it is (A copycat) and if you are able to make it work for you, there truly isnt a lot that I can do.
So on that note everyone maybe we can chalk this whole thing up as a loss and move on. 
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