Thanks to those who've emailed about this, I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier but I've only just checked my email as I've been up the hospital for the past 12 or so hours due to a death in the family.
I do agree with you, this poll is totally pathetic and not a good show for what is supposed to be a forum owned by, and linked to, a professional business (a business that I happen to spend quite a lot of cash at too). It does not show the company in a good light if the moderators on their forums can just go around banning people for no reason other than having a laugh.
I have to wonder if Spie knows what they're doing and if he's bothered about his companies name being tarnished by these individuals taking the **** just because they have a modicum of power over us plebs. I mean, if you look around the internet there's already quite a lot of people slagging OcUK off and actions like these are doing nothing more than adding fuel to to the fires.