yes, that's why he locked all of the sections to member only.
That really didn't help at all. We have plenty of members of the forums with keys who don't contribute anything. Stocking? Yeah she has a key but she still needs to leave.
because it'd likely make
That makes no sense of all, ban all the people who do nothing but bad to the forums? No arguments at all, what would the decent members left argue about? How much better the forum is?
The last ban I saw Badspot hand out was to Chrono and it was for something a different member (who was the one being a douche) did exactly a couple pages prior, so Chrono got banned for mocking him? That's a bunch of crap. But then of course, as per usual, all anyone else did was jump on Badspot's little red wagon and laugh at Chrono because he totally got what was coming to him.
I don't even think Badspot cares about the forums.