I was an early registrant at US Militaria Forum and contributed in those areas in which I have some knowledge. My membership was suspended for two years for personal issues with ADMIN (who remains nameless and the only point of contact for people other than members) for what I can only describe as "political incorrectness." The comment previously expressed that ADMIN wants to keep the forum as a sort of exclusive club may well be functional, I would also express the opinion that dealers are thought of as really swell people at US Militaria Forum. I believe my opinion of dealers is part of the conflict that caused my suspension.

The suspension period has long passed and I emailed ADMIN several times reminding him that my membership suspension has expired and offered explanation for some of my issues with the forum, that I fully intend to keep to myself from now on and only post technical information. I am still "Banned" from the Forum and ADMIN has not acknowledged my emails. Based on the previous comments on this thread I am now not so disappointed in ADMIN's lack of courtesy. My main purpose for appealing that my suspension has expired is that I would like to communicate with some of the other members on the USMF.

As with any forum there are allot of people that use it for either obtaining information or sharing information of interest to the membership. There are also people that it appears just want to participate and their primary motivation is "post count." There is allot of speculation and misinformation posted that in my view detracts from the usefulness of the forum to the membership. The US Militaria Forum has open tolerance for postings asking for the monetary value of material culture items which in my opinion is related to the favoritism shown dealers.

In the last thread in which I participated prior to suspension other members purposefully tried to "flame" me for the purpose of having grounds for tattle-telling to ADMIN a violation of forum rules. My suspension was actually a violation of forum rules as it was done without warning and no violation of forum rules was offered as justification. It was obvious that ADMIN bowed to the pressure of his preferred membership to suspend me. I have heard from other US Militaria Forum members that were threatened with being banned. One of them I cannot imagine what he could have possibly done to be threatened with banning as all the posts I had read were non-controversial and intended to be informative (although occasionally unintentionally misinformative).

It is not my intent to discourage anyone that desires membership at USMF. It is my opinion that ADMIN has some serous personal issues, and that if you pursue membership be very careful that you are not critical of anything or anyone, and be very careful of the content of your postings. There has not been a banning/suspension in quite some time at USMF so maybe ADMIN got it out of his system and feels he has the remaining members under control.

BTW it appears that there was no admonishment, certainly none of those that flamed me were banned, for rules posted or conveniently imagined as in my case.