It was a staff vote that involved 7 people - one of whom represented the Board at that time. It was fully explained to the community. As the material that was being investigated contained doxxing it could not be released verbatim to the community. To do so would actually have achieved aristarchus' aims far more efficiently than he himself had been able to do. A copy of the findings was sent to the email address that aristarchus had given as his contact details when he first joined the site.
aristarchus was given various options but he did not respond to any of them. He did not make any formal objection to the Board which was his right, nor did he request another review. In fact he commenced on a period of abuse which continues to this day.
There have been several attempts to rehabilitate aristarchus into the community made over the last few years. He has either rejected or ignored them. As he continues to abuse the site even now, including attempted doxxing in recent days, the ban will remain.
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday October 18, @12:53AM
It was a staff vote that involved 7 people - one of whom represented the Board at that time. It was fully explained to the community. As the material that was being investigated contained doxxing it could not be released verbatim to the community. To do so would actually have achieved aristarchus' aims far more efficiently than he himself had been able to do. A copy of the findings was sent to the email address that aristarchus had given as his contact details when he first joined the site.
aristarchus was given various options but he did not respond to any of them. He did not make any formal objection to the Board which was his right, nor did he request another review. In fact he commenced on a period of abuse which continues to this day.
There have been several attempts to rehabilitate aristarchus into the community made over the last few years. He has either rejected or ignored them. As he continues to abuse the site even now, including attempted doxxing in recent days, the ban will remain.