J-P

yes...how do you separate the wheat from the chafe ?

some of those people have been there for 10 years.... with maybe one time-out

others were trolls , there only to stir the political pot... but even the trolls , over the years , tend to mellow when they realize that they are conversing with real people that they woulsd like to get to know

i would thnk one of the major problems is the people who sign up for a restricted thing ... like the tavern... and then don't like the give and take ....

.. they complain to the management

i would think a little more acknowledgement from people who want to be admitted, that they are not going to have baby sitters , might be a start

and a different type of monitoring

what's the plan ?

myself.. i'd pretty much let all of them back in and then throw them out , one-by-one..., as needed, at the next slip-up

i'd also give time-outs for telling teacher...if they can't ignore simple slights , or minor disagreements, they don't belong there either... they should be ignoring a lot of the comments...
as soon as abusers get ignored they either settle down, or go ballistic... so.. it's not really that hard to identify who the real malcontents are