I point to the facts linked to in my reply to marmistrz. There you will find links to Estel admitting to breaking forum rules. You will find a link to an e-mail from Chemist, who did the initial 3 day ban, and his reasons for doing so,which was reviewed by the Council, other moderators, and Reggie. You want to base things on merit? How much merit does Reggie have in your eyes? Does the fact that he chimed in on this in that same e-mail thread, backing Chemist, give you the slightest amount of pause? Does the fact that Estel called him an incompetent hack give you pause? (He did that... just read the mail thread.) Those are the facts. In this very thread, Estel has claimed he only opened the second account to contact Reggie (who he later called names). While his own e-mails and posts to the forum, linked to in the archive in the post referenced above, tells a different story. The story changes pretty regularly... Does that not give you pause? The point is that one small group of people is trying to pull this community apart. The ring leader of which (from what I can tell) hopes to regather the take power over the pieces after it breaks up. Just read his comments a few posts back about starting his own forum and moving people there... I'm simply restating what actually happened, with links to historical archives to help those willing to read verify for themselves what I'm saying is factual. Estel did some nice things, 8+ months ago when you were here last. But things changed when he got elected to Council. He changed, or at least his true nature became more obvious. It took a while for people to see that, because of the meritocratic nature of this community. But when it became obvious a lot of people fell away from him. If he were really banned without reason, do you think only a handful of people would be making a fuss about this? I'm not asking you to take my word for it. Ask around. Find people you trust, that you think have merit, that were here in that time frame and ask them. Look at the links in my previous post. Make up your own mind. And if you don't agree with me, that's fine. I don't need or want everyone to agree with me. The world would be very boring if that were the case. Cool off. Think. Nobody here is attacking you (or anyone for that matter). This, coming from the hot-head.