Why was FMS banned? What did he do?

Bans are not discussed.

@BruceAlderman The edit has moved the question away from the existing answer, which is an undesirable result [and not just because the answer is mine!]

you are however free to ask him about it if you want when he gets back. Whatever it is, it will have been explained to him and he's free to share if he wants to. Mods can't discuss any information that isn't generally available on the site to someone with sufficient rep and I can't even really hypothesis since I don't recall what information I know from private discussion vs open.

@AndrewLeach Do you have any suggestions on how the question can be improved?

I think it's salvageable, but I'm not familiar enough with the issue to know how to phrase it.

@AndrewLeach However, this case is exceptional, and there is even a hint in a Meta post.

> That isn't how this site works and if you won't join us in doing what we are doing here, you'll eventually loose the privilege altogether.

@LCIII The reasons are pretty much spread all over the site, both main and meta.

@AndrewLeach How about this: Instead of "Has the Society done anything since then..." I've changed it to "Has anything happened since then..." I think this fits the answer better, since it looks like all the subsequent action has been on the part of the Church.

Keep in mind that suspensions are carried out when a user is being consistently and/or excessively detrimental to the site and/or its community. The information I've laid out here should be enough for you to figure out why FMS was suspended. (And it's all public information, I believe, so I shouldn't be doing anything wrong here.)

@BruceAlderman But the answer is geared to "Is the Society schismatic?" and that is answered by cross-referencing its documents to Canon Law, and coming up with the answer Yes. And because it does that, and demonstrates that its documents are not in full accord, it's not opinion-based.

The original question didn't ask what had happened, it asked about the Society's status.

@AndrewLeach Should I just leave it at "Does [Archbishop Lefebvre's] action make the Society schismatic?"

I like Revision 4 :-)

Wow I didn't know FMS was such a rebel

@LCIII He was suspended. And only for a week. Not banned.

Also, you didn't notice that he was posting cruddy content at a higher frequency than is acceptable?

@fredsbend Er, I guess not really.

I know he was having an issue with the rules. I don't know why.

I don't know why sites like this are addicting.

Maybe we're all freaking nerds. Nerd Christians. This site attracts nerd christians.

My wife would hate this site. She's the least nerdiest person I know. It can be tough to remember that the people that peruse this site comprise, I think, a small minority of the church as a whole. Most people aren't nerds, I think.

@LCIII Most of whom are programmers. :P

@El'endiaStarman Double whammy. Nerdiest of the nerd.

Nerdy Christian Programmers. My goodness that's begging for dysfunction.

People that are on the internet a lot are nerds. And we're like the nerd corner of the nerd corner. I said "nerd" a lot. It becomes a funny word the more you say it.

@El'endiaStarman No, thats neeerds (pronounced "neards").

@MattGutting Personally, I would've written it as "NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!".

@El'endiaStarman And it would still be pronounced "neards". I've seen it written (I don't remember where, but it was in a fairly old book - 40 years old or so) as "nurds".

@LCIII well sites like this are particularly tricky too because you not only need to be a fan of theology, but also comfortable with the academic disconnect

@fredsbend Yum!

I know it is hard to explain the Truth vs truth distinction to Christian friends often when trying to explain the site