I just spoke with Laurissa, who I think you all know by now is the new Marketing Admin of the forum. We've decided that although it is a departure from our usual system, DPU will be removed from the community effective immediately, or as immediately as I can, I am composing his "goodbye note" and then need to go into the control panel.
The reason for this departure is that we lost one excellent member, Houndlove, because of him, and about a month ago I had to talk Brookcove out of leaving the forum because of him too, and those are just the ones I know about. In addition, writing to him to discuss his behaviour will have no effect, having done so in the past his only response is to promise that he will delete, unopened, any official correspondence from myself or any other staff member. Being put in that kind of....helpless....situation is unfair to all of us who work hard for this forum. Being driven away by him is also unfair to any community member who comes here to legitimately contribute, and given the choice I'd rather lose one member than, potentially, many.
If there are any questions, let me know.