A frank and open dialogue about hacking

I agree pretty much with this. I know I discussed this once before, but I still think if someone is a well-known hacker or passing as one they should be banned on sight, even if you can't be proven it isn't someone impersonating the hacker, that's what it'd bring to themselves. It would help strengthen the sense of southperry as a hacking intolerant community, even if it was just appearance.

But that is just me, go on with your business.

Not sure what you mean by impersonation.
If a person comes on here saying "I am the Dread Hacker Roberts" we will ban him, regardless of whether he truly is said hacker, or even of whether there is such a hacker.
But if someone simply registers by the name Roberts, and says nothing about it, we can't know whether he is the hacker, an impersonator, or just a random person who happens to use the same name.