If Beno was not violating rules on a regular basis, perhaps the more even-handed response would have been to cut him off for a day or so. While I appreciate the difficulties in monitoring a message board, the fact of the matter is that this board is not close to the yahoo lunacy.
If a poster is providing useful information as to what is happening in Hugo Land (information that we can use to get through this), I'm willing to let questionable behavior slide for awhile.
Actually, they can curse like a truckdriver for all I care. I just click over anything I don't find useful and move on.