The following is my history with FAIR/MAD. Shades did a write-up on his old blog which listed all of the Shades' board members who had been banned from there.
I still think that mine is one of the most unique stories there. Most of the old timers of Shades' board know this story, but some of you may not:
Shades' old blog wrote:FAIR Exile #5: Liz3564
Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:40 am
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[ Category: List of Exiles ]
Aliases: "strangetenor"
Background and/or posting style:
After the FAIR boards went down in June or July of 2006, Liz e-mailed the previous mods to tell them of her computer science expertise and to offer her services. In preparation for an upcoming server transition, they went ahead and brought her onboard as an additional moderator and site administrator.
Therefore, Liz wasn't your typical FAIRite. She was actually a moderator who was banned! As such, her periodic insights--post banning--into the moderating process over there have been highly illuminating.
Circumstances behind her banning:
While moderating FAIR, Liz also posted here at MormonDiscussions.com. This made the other moderators extremely nervous for some reason. Later, they managed to convince themselves that Liz had shared the screen names of the other FAIR moderators, apparently an unforgivable offense. What makes this assumption even more bizarre is that they never accused anyone of exposing their real names, merely their online screen names. So they still would've been anonymous, even if Liz had shared such information! Paranoia, anyone?
In the meantime, Liz had exchanged several PMs and e-mails with "Who Knows," another poster here. Determined to dig up dirt on Liz, the FAIR moderators looked through all the PMs and e-mails of these two and who knows how many others (no pun intended). This little invasion of privacy did not pass unnoticed and was published far and wide, to the FAIR mods' extreme embarrassment.
Liz had shared no such information, however, at any time. Her integrity as a moderator remained intact throughout the entire ugly episode. She tried to PM Dan_G, the chief FAIR moderator, to give her side of the story and to protest her innocence, to no avail--Dan_G banned her while she was composing the PM! He didn't even wait long enough to hear her point of view!
Liz3564's own words:
None yet submitted.
Other Items of Note:
After Liz was banned, she shared a list of FAIR's "untouchables." This consisted of a guide to all moderators to go easy on certain posters, no matter how bad they acted. This proved what most already suspected--that FAIR does, indeed, ban not those who act up or break rules, but those who merely displease them.
This was the banning which gave everyone universal notice that the FAIR moderators aren't above banning people for merely participating on other boards, of all things! If that doesn't scream out "control freaks," I don't know what does.
(Liz3564: If you're reading this, please feel free to add any corrections and/or clarifications.)