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I was never an advocate or believer in permanent bans(other then for plagiarisers, spammers, and writers of obscene materials) for members. Since I've been a member at this site there has only been two banning. Wanda's(her ban will never be lifted) and Lilia/Demeter. I believe it's time that Lilia's Ban be lifted. It's been a year and I think a year is long enough.
Lilia was a respected longtime member of this site. She is a brilliant writer who wrote many provocative, controversial, funny and thought provoking poetry, essays and commentaries. Aside from her writing she contributed her time by commenting and critiquing many of the works at lit. She helped many on this site(including myself) become better writers by the encouragement she offered and the constructive criticism she gave. She also was somewhat of a firebrand and a lighting rod to chaos.
Lilia was an self styled Internet performance artist. She created multiple identities (Agape, Legs, etc) and created a voice for them that was uniquely their own whereby poetry and essays were written from a part of herself that identified with that persona. Now she wasn't the only one who used multiple persona's on the site although she by far used the most and the only self admitted one.. I never had a problem with the use of these persona's by her and others as long as they were used for creative purposes and kept in the box(secretly. And for the most part they were until a few were found out and accusations started flying about. The "Persona Wars" erupted and chaos and acrimony ensued.
Many members got upset and confused by all these false identities. They didn't know who was real or fake and thought about leaving. Action needed to be taken so it was decided by a majority that Lilia was to be banned. Chris and Nae were less tolerant about multiple persona's and all the bickering that was going on than I. Nae(who was the Head Moderator) asked Chris(who still had and has administrative powers) to wipe Lilia off the boards. I was against it Viper relunctly went along with it. It was a tough call and Nae did what she thought was the right thing to do and at the time it probably was the right thing. The bickering stopped but so did the membership. Many left the boards anyway.
I know that there are some members that are not going to be happy to see Lilia back but All I can say to those is to forgive, let it be, and renew the good relationships that you once had with her. Lilia has promised to stay within the rules and that's all that can be asked of any member. She's using a different handle which you can find on my blog she commented on or when she writes here again. I hope you all welcome her back in the fold.
my warmest
bob
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