We're only privy to them when they get forwarded to us.
ray I didn't realise you'd had abusive PM's.
The forum rules do extend to Private Messages, so if anyone is abusive in a PM, please forward it to a staff member untouched and we'll take a look.
That wasn't the reason the member in question was banned, and it would be unethical for us to discuss the reasons behind a ban.
However, in this instance, I can say rileydoggy was a duplicate account and therefore banned.
PS. Thanks for the kind words Dangermouse (and others). I know it's a PITA when you get moderated personally, and if I'm honest I would prefer a forum were we didn't have to enforce any moderation whatsoever. But that's a utopia..and utopia's don't exist unfortunately, so we do need to moderate.
I just hope that when we do, we get the balance right between fairness and enforcing the rules.