Fairly recently, somebody we know was harassed into putting the
Pagan Awareness Ring up for adoption. General cuteness from
Webring's volunteers, and we can probably guess which one -
our guy had no suspended or pending sites on any of his rings.
Everything was running fine on them all. There was nothing he
could possibly fix, but he was still getting "sabre rattling
notes" from Support (read: the volunteers) in which they
threatened to put his rings up for adoption and delete his
ring memberships if he didn't do maintenance on his rings
immediately. When he, very reasonably, wrote in to ask how
he was supposed to take real action to fix an imaginary
problem, he was threatened with further action over his
"rudeness". Absolutely insane.

The ring was taken over by somebody else, who I'm guessing is
a friend of the volunteer who was harassing the previous
ringmaster. At a time when our ringcode checked every test,
the new ringmaster suspended this group from the ring without
bothering to send us any notice of the fact. Without knowing,
we were feeding hits into a ring that had stopped sending us
any. Read that again. Not only weren't we given any rationale
for the suspension, we weren't even told about it.

How very ethical of that person. I have no doubt that he or she
will later try to spin these events by saying that s/he didn't
remove us from the ring, we removed ourselves, but that's a
half truth at best. What's the good of being on a ring if your
site is perpetually suspended and nobody surfing the ring ever
comes to one's site? We've replaced the Pagan Unity (nee Pagan
Awareness Ring) membership with a pending membership on a
Free Speech ring, one that is not run by a Pagan as far as we
know. If the true believers wish to play games, let them do so
where everybody can watch as they give their own community the
reputation it deserves.