Bannings

[Steel God]

I have taken the unilateral decision to remove four players from the Blitz: McIvan, Tanker, DevilThomas, and Colonel Talvela.

If you are so unhappy with the Blitz, some or all of it's policies; some or all of it's staff; or some or all of it's players; that you have to post on other websites how bad things are (in some pretty horrible ways I might add) than I don't wish you to be unhappy any longer. Please, I wish you all the happiness that the world can give you, but it should be away from here, because we obviously are not what you consider the ideal of a war gaming Club to be.

Some questions may arise by my actions, I hope to have answered them below:

1) This is not a change in policy. As a general rule, I do not, and will not, go searching the internet for folks complaining about the Blitz. I prefer to ignore rumor and gossip and only act on what I see and hear here at the Blitz. If I find something out despite that, I have no choice but to deal with it. I'm human and I can't ignore the fact that you're smiling at us and bad mouthing us behind our backs, and what I saw was not an odd comment or two, but a long, sustained campaign, which included some pretty foul language.

2) I realize that these guys are well liked and have more than a few friends here. Heck I freely admit that I have enjoyed my conversations with some of them. So I understand completely if other members feel they too must leave the Blitz in a show of solidarity for them, or disgust with the Blitz. If you're so inclined we will gladly remove the records of any member who asks. Post here, drop an email or a PM, and we will do so, no questions asked. Otherwise, your records will remain as is until they go inactive in the usual fashion.

3) Some may say..."Well I'm their friend, am I next?" or similar. In short, no. If I saw no evidence of you in those posts, you're not in the list, and you are welcome to stay. If you wish to go anyway, please see Item 2), and again, no hard feelings and best wishes elsewhere.

4) Anyone playing these players has a week to report any games against them if you so desire, after which time their records will be shadowed and no more games can be reported against them.

The bottom line in all of this that the Blitz is what it is. We try and manage to the ideals and the rules that Jim established in 1999. If there's anything about these facts that just rubs you the wrong way, we respect your right to disagree, but if you want to fight about it, we're not interested. We make no money on this web site. Not one cent is made by clicking this URL. So if we have 50 members or 500 members, or 5000 members, it's all the same to us. We are here and we provide the services we do for folks who are wish to be here and abide by the rules we have in place. If you can't do that, for whatever reason, it's cool. We'll miss you, but you should move on. If it comes to pass that the Blitz is just out of step with the mainstream, and all our members go elsewhere, that's okay too, at that date and time we'll roll the banners, turn out the lights, and close up, happy and proud of what we have done to date. But as long as there are players who want to play here, under the guidelines we provide, we'll be here to support those players.

My sincere apologies to the membership, to the Staff, and to the Owners for anyone who is insulted or upset by my actions.