Behold, Spaced Ranger’s Anduril speaks:

Jay (and responsible minions), I haven’t come here as a new poster. Rather, I plead for the avatar of Spaced Ranger, whom you wrongly and unceremoniously banned without notice and courtesy of defense:

This defense is true:

Spaced Ranger broke no forum rules as you wrote them
You violated your own rules by the immediate and permanent ban of Spaced Ranger in the forum 's Off Topic section thread Politics
You singled out Spaced Ranger for immediate and permanent ban while letting off all others involved in strong cross-talk with mere warnings
One instigator, the most aggregious (if in another forum section), even defended himself (applying to Spaced Ranger as well) by your own stated “moderator hands-off” in the Off Topic section
Even worse, you immediately replaced your old rules, which stood against your own unjust actions, with new rules as a retro-active justification of your Spaced Ranger ban
Finally, the locking of the entire Politics thread, weeks after the banning of Spaced Ranger, is tacit admission that your arbitrarily ignoring your own rules was the real problem after all

To sum, if you have any respect for your forum, it’s posters, and it’s reputation among the community of open forums, you’ll admit your hasty and ill-advised action against a single poster, which smacks of something more indictive than professional, by restoring Spaced Ranger to his active state.

Heed the words of Spaced Ranger’s Anduril.