The site has been unavailable for a couple of days now. There are many theories about what happened. They range from server replacement – the absence of warning being a “joke” of the staff – to final termination.

Time will certainly tell which one is the nearest from the truth. Here are some elements that might, or not, be of significance:

·         Enturb staff began to behave strangely in recent weeks (see previous posts) culminating with a thread about closing Enturb. Poppins proposed the thread, but most people wanted to keep it open.

·         Entub has been under DDOS attacks for the past few weeks, making it slow but still usable.

For the time being, enturbulators seem to regroup at various places: http://forums.scientology-exposed.com, http://888chan.org/r8y, http://network.marcab.org. Possibly, people will choose the one that suits their taste best (format, staff, etc.).

“You have been banned for the following reason: Inability to read, comprehend, then post. Date the ban will be lifted: 09-07-2008, 10:00 PM.”

I cannot say that I am happy to be banned, but at least I saw this one coming. Arguing with the owner of Enturbulation, even with the best rationale, is always dangerous. The funny thing is that I was defending the opinion that he was not respecting its own rules.

Here it goes. LE, Enturb owner, decided to open a whole forum about the coming Hurricane[1]. I was not the first one to mention that it was off topic – and that having a whole forum was slightly over the top - but I might be the only one to dare to say that LE was contradicting itself. As I knew that this person is quite sensitive, I also mentioned in my second post that I would not post again after that. But it was not enough to prevent the ban.

The exchange is as follows:

·         In the OP, LE states very clearly that the forum is dedicated to the hurricane. If the content relates to scientology and/or Anonymous too, it is OK, but it has to deal with the hurricane.

·         As an answer to my first post about off topic – and to prove me wrong – LE links to another topic in which the issue of the scientology voluntary ministers’ potential presence on the hurricane area.

·         As an answer to my second post where I mention the contradiction, I am banned.

It was not the first time that LE and I exchanged posts this week. When a thread about the 25’000^th thread was published[2], I posted to thank the staff for its dedication. In the next post, somebody asked about the staff members who were “fired” since the beginning. With precautionary remarks, I posted a list of the people who lost the staff status. LE answered that my list was uncomplete and that many were not fired; in fact, this post mentioned, for each of them, the reason for the loss of status. I answered that my list was not that wrong (one person missing and two changing their username) and that I clearly stated it was not limited to fired people (perhaps LE also has an “inability to read, comprehend, then post”). In the following posts, LE wanted to know why I maintained such a list, why I did not asked if I was interested and finally decided it was creepy…

EDIT: Another user got banned too and a thread about LE’s abuse of power was opened[3]. The OP was banned too… At some stage, LE made it clear that it could do whatever it wanted with the site…