Well, astrologer50 was very helpful in many ways. After some contemplation, what, I think, really happened is that because she was not feeling all that well, that she used this forum as an escape and it ended up consuming her, to an extent. She simply spent too much time on here and became very obsessed by it, posting quite a bit as an escape to her current health situation.
When you are posting as much as she did, you are bound to become frustrated as the "work" is essentially endless. What she really needed was a break. She didn't recognize this fact, it seems, and became entangled with and increasingly irritated by some members of the community here and apparently became quite snippy defending her ways and also attacking other's methods. Since she had been warned before, she was banned because she was too opinionated and antagonistic during this sensitive time for her.
It is unfortunate, as she was very knowledgable and eager to help. After all, she did have 14,000 plus posts. Yes she wasn't perfect, but who is? I think, in this last case, that a temporary ban, as another "wake up" should have been enforced. Not a permanent ban. I think it should most likely be a progressive ban length (2 weeks, then one month, 2 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc.). In extremely rare cases should a permanent ban occur.
What a50 brought was discussion and activity (banter). For example, the "read my chart" forum is usually much busier because she was actively in there answering questions thus bumping posts quite a bit. She was a stickler and would keep you on your toes with suggestions, recommendations and corrections. She would also give you enough links that you could spend time away from the forum learning astrology instead of posting.
Anyhow, in my opinion, she's missed in this forum.
I just wanted to say...aren't we all at times a bit too...? I know I am...and although she was a pain at times...I understood Her passion...and real passion like that is getting harder to find day by day.
