If we can just have a bit of context for a sec and stop trying to rewrite history to suit your preferred narrative, can I just add my two penn'oth?
This bit:
"There is no doubt that at least one person has/had long held agenda to have certain other posters permanently excluded from this site and have done all they could (on and off the public forum) to achieve that."
...is utter shite.
I don't have an agenda and I'm certainly not sad enough to devote any significant time and effort to waging a one-man campaign to get certain characters (and that's what they are, characters as opposed to genuine people) banned from a football forum.
The Scott character got banned years ago for being an abusive prick. I didn't ask for him to be banned and it was done by you, the moderation team.
But then you un-banned him in short order and offered (what turned out to be) the first of many contrived, spurious, patronising explanations about "being fair and consistent" and "trusting that grown men should be able to get along" and all that stuff.
And that left a sour taste because it became immediately apparent that you valued volume of input to the site over quality.
And that remains the case today, despite your continued protestations to the contrary.
We're stuck in a cycle of "ban / un-ban" with these characters and it's rendered the entire process meaningless.
And has caused many of your regular contributors to lose faith in your judgement and question your motivations.
Hence, why people are leaving the site or resorting to only putting minimal effort into posting on it.
You've brought this on with your mental approach to modding and patronising lecturing of your customers on their behaviour, whilst continually committing the same "mistakes" that you seem only too happy to criticise them for.
It demonstrates a monumental lack of self-awareness and makes you look a bit stupid.
But it's your site, your rules, so crack on.
Just stop trying to spin this as though I've been instrumental in continuing some sort of feud over the last three years because I fucking haven't.
I have never once gone out of my way to start or continue shit on here as part of some agenda, so fuck off suggesting that I have.