The point is, that Gunnar was advocating freedom of speech and respect for democratic way, but in his behaviour has shown an unbearable disrespect of these particular virtues. He distorted my textes in the forum news section without any notification and when asked to stop these activities just sneered and continued to crush his way throgh the debris. On September 6 he finally deleted my administrative rights without any notification, as he feared I could intervene.
Unlike what Gunnar might believe, nobody was persecuting him for his critics, as critical remarks and arguing over some differences is the most normal thing in a group of people and non of us ever came on the idea to sanction him or somebody else for criticism. On contrary, having an individual and critical opinion is a sign of a mature personality and is appreciated by all means.
Unfortunately, Gunnar obviously believed that goals justify means and therefore tried to enforce his opinions by methods which could not be tolerated on this forum - namely censoreship and massive violation of other people's rights.
To avoid further, possibly more severe damage, we (Peter and me) decided to adjust his administrative rights to those of a Global Moderator -
after he cancelled my rights. Gunnar didn't appreciate this decision at all and demanded that his account will be deleted within 24 h - this was performed by Jim finally.
Nonregarding all the differences, I must say that Gunnar has contributed his share for this project in the past and that his input was highly appreciated. I regard his complete withdrawal from the group as regretable. Nevertheless, we could not tolerate this kind of destructive behaviour in the responsible position Gunnar inherited until last days.
Anyone who wishes to contact Gunnar and request his version of the unfortunate developement, shall visit him at his gaynewsboard.net:
http://www.gaynewsboard.netI wish Gunnar all successes in his work and hope he will understand one day, that we never did wish him any harm.