It's my policy to usually enforce local rules. See:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=31782.0I think that being able to ban someone from a thread is generally a good thing. Someone might be damaging a thread in ways that moderators don't normally react to. If you don't like the local rule, you can start a new thread. Also, banning someone from posting in a topic should be a red flag to potential traders. This makes it
easier to identify potentially dangerous traders.
I'm somewhat confused. johnniewalker's statement implies that AfricanHunter will be blocked from responding to
any future posts of johnniewalker's. If you're saying that you've advised johnniewalker that he can start a topic with a local rule excluding AfricanHunter and you'll enforce that rule, that's one thing. If you're going to exclude AfricanHunter from ever posting in any johnniewalker topic and somehow prevent him from responding to posts from johnniewalker in threads which were started by neither of them, that's another thing entirely.