Hi Kommonsents,
Regarding your first question: When the incident involves the identity of individual banned, unfortunately we cannot share details of the situation. Privacy/Security is very important to SHU and it trumps any other right. As in my previous post, if Bert decides to share this information on Yahoo, I will respond. It is important to repeat though: Bert was NOT banned for his opinions in any post.
Regarding your second question: Your rights as a member is to use this forum as you choose as long as you can stick to the rules identified here as best you can. I will admit that there are times rules are broken, just as long as they aren't repeatedly abused. I can assure you that no one will ever be banned for posting their opinion, positive, negative or neutral. Indeed, this site is worthless without a healthy number of members in the community, so thank you for being a part of SHU.
To put it a different way, in a football game, players have been ejected from a game or suspended for many games. Does this stop the other players on the team from continuing to play hard or with intensity? SHU just had a game suspension, we expect the rest of the members will continue to play like they were before.