On a serious note ...
Am I alone in perceiving a lot of similarities between Craig's recent expulsion and the way Seth Perlstein was treated?
Maybe helpfulness, friendliness, understanding and knowledge on the forums are not qualities held in high regard by Cakewalk/Roland/Gibson?
For me however, it could be argued in both cases that their biggest 'crime' was candour. An openness and honesty to maybe reveal just a little too much, and to associate just a little too frequently with the great unwashed?
Is this the reason some of the current batch of forum hosts are required to remain aloof and not get dragged into 'jokey' or irreverent threads? (Please don't assume this particular question is in any way part of my historic disagreement with the concept of customer hosts, it's not. I am genuinely interested in knowing why the directive to do little other than moderate seems to have been sent out, and why over-familiarity and free association seem to now be frowned upon).
I believe I'm not be alone in thinking that such friendliness and sincerity are just the qualities that your ordinary run-of-the-mill forum-goer would actually approve of.