That might be the most insightful thing that's ever been written in these forums. I'm going to have to sit on it for a while.
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not...
One question to all: would you be alright with Ian being around if you saw the mods give him warnings if he gets out of hand?
It seems that the biggest issue here is that people get warned for arguing with Ian but he doesn't get warned at all.
He might not be breaking the rules, but there are times where he posts some rather asinine comments that warrant at least a warning. I know Lindy did this once.
Right now, it looks like the mods are on Ian's side while the people trying to make some sense of this get warned. Again, if they warned him or hell, even temp-ban him for a bit I think everything would be balanced.
What Vudu says, though, is good too. It might not stop him from posting, but at least he won't be getting the attention he likely wants. We ALL know that he will never say anything positive about gaming. Even if the news is really, really awesome and changes games forever in a positive way Ian will find something negative to exploit and diminish the impact. He's become the running gag in a tired old sitcom. You see it coming and you never laugh, you just move on with whatever else is going on.
We also know that he preaches a double standard he doesn't even follow, so he's even more of a joke that he was before.