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I want to clarify what happened here.
Dr. Coggan was banned for willfully ignoring moderator requests. While he has an immense amount of knowledge and experience to offer, it was unfortunately often done in a manner that did not exemplify the forum guideline of “Be excellent to each other”. While he was careful not to directly attack people with words, he subtly did so with tone and indirect implication in a repeated manner.
In response to flags from the community that his posts were demeaning and harmed/discouraged forum participation, we engaged with him through forum moderation efforts to ask him to analyze whether his tone and treatment of others exemplified “Be excellent to each other”. He ignored repeated requests to engage in that dialogue and instead kept posting on the forum. We gave a further warning that continuing to ignore moderator requests would result in a ban. He continued to ignore, so he was banned.
This is not the first time he has been banned for similar issues, and this is further evidence that our updated rules about not allowing a banned user to return are good to have in place.
Dr. Coggan has an immense amount of value to offer any community, and in particular one such as this. However, it does not matter how much value you can offer if it comes at the cost of respectful dialogue and overall community “health”.
I hope that clears this up.
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Is it actually certain that The_Cog is really AC? Or did someone use ChatGPT to impersonate him?
I’ve seen AC get banned from forums for over 15 years now. Always for the same reasons. However, quite a few postings here in the forum were very untypical for him.
Just saying.
I must admit I had a doubt it was even him, any coaches I have met have some people skills and this was supposedly the ‘Grand Daddy’ of all coaches 
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He isn’t a coach though… his words not mine.
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Yip I can imagine he said something like that 
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Me, too, which was why I was pushing back hard initially. Imagine having a discussion about FTP and a new member with the user name Coggan enters the discussion. I thought he was a troll. I didn’t know he frequented forums and was/is known to be difficult. It didn’t help that he reacted the way he did.
Out of curiosity, I checked and it seems he is on thin ice on slow twitch, too. I know nothing of the backstory here, but I don’t think I need to.
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Honestly though, he isn’t a coach. This is what always frustrates me about his posts. He ignores people’s real world experience and just quotes what is learned in a lab or a paper. It just feels like a “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes”?
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Most likely. Just like he was @oldbutnotdeadyet. I know it’s hard to know your heroes.
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