Cool, as his chart suggests, was always contentious, belligerent, and confrontational. His independent thinking was never (as he thought) an issue, but his unkindness and eagerness to provoke a fight was often an issue. He had accumulated three formal warnings, which essentially never happens on this forum (and is much more common on other forums with which I'm familiar). People rarely come back from three warnings; rather, they most often do what cool did, which is start to drop additional provocation into every new post as if it would now be a badge of honor for them to get expelled, causing a bit more friction and unpleasantness along the way.
Last night, coolcoolcwr explicitly asked that his account be deleted. (He didn't get his badge of honor of being expelled, though he was close to it.) I unhesitantly complied. When an account is deleted, I can either leave the posts in place or remove them: I'm generally against removing them for a member with a long, participating, contributing history because we lose valuable content and it makes various threads look broken and fragmented. In cool's case, though, his posts had been routinely seeding bad feelings and conflict, and I judged he'd never made a lasting contribution of sufficient value to outweigh his belligerence, so I deleted everything and made an initial pass to clean up some of the broken threads. However, you may still find some shrapnel laing around - just let us know if you think it needs cleaning up.
I thought his chart, which he willingly shared with us, should not be lost. It is a valuable example when compared to his character.
