Message board banning - Does it serve a valuable purpose?

[GonzoStyle]

In all my tenure as mod on oa.com I banned 2 people, diceman saotome and mavric atleast 30 times. I agree that banning is for wimps who can't argue their point on the board. It's such a childish move, the most pussy thing you can do. Basically what made me sick was when froy banned afrika for sending a link in an e-mail. Love him or hate him, that was bullshit.

The only people who should be banned are spammers but we don't have that problem here.