My wife used to follow this site faithfully and finally registered an account here last year, so that she could ask a question about the law of war manual. She politely and intelligently asked her question and was promptly rewarded with a message that she was "permanently banned". We were both dumbfounded. I moved on to post over at Patriots, where no one seems to be threatened by questions but she just shrugged and moved on. A shame; she only wanted to be educated on a particular matter and thought that people here could help her with that. Instead, she was catapulted right out. She's never read this site since.