You didnt even wait for an appeal which is a part of the problem. Also acting like he had no way of appealing while being banned is just playing dumb. He managed to appeal to you, didn't he? He even admitted to creating and posting under an alt which is against another rule, but you choose to ignore that too. The way you pick and choose when to follow THE RULES GUYZ and when to unilaterally overrule them is complete bullshit.
We should let Draegan run for admin next voting session
How can he appeal when banned? None of them can see it. They don't have access to the official email.
He posted under an alt on the old forums. We have better software that isn't going to stop every single thing but it might stop him. If it doesn't he then IS violating a rule and CAN be banned for it. So why would he do that to appeal? You also keep bringing up things from past forums. They don't matter one iota here or we would have several bans still live for no reason.
I am not picking and choosing you just aren't looking at the whole picture. Someone you don't like was unbanned and you don't like it. You can't look at the whole process objectively. Let me do a complete timeline here and maybe you can wrap your head around it.
User makes a post about a bet.
Mods and users research his past to find out why he has no standing on this bet.
They find proof.
I post that if he comes clean on the debt he is safe.
Cad decides he doesn't like that and bans him with no proper paperwork and breaks every rule doing it.
User messages me at 5AM on facebook and tells me he will pay the debt.
I agree and unban him when he pays the debt.
I then tell all the users that they will need to report him in order for another ban to happen and that this doesn't mean he has any protection.
Okay so that is just the ban part. We agreed that the avatar was a screw up.
So point out in that timeline where I broke a rule. He can still be banned right now. The moderators are still in full control. They can vote on it just fine by making a thread in the moderator section, they have not. I would even abstain from voting Tuco's seat. They can still do what they want (following the rules). The person you are defending, Cad, broke the rules. Yet you are still going after me? Despite agreeing that the ban was wrong in the first place? How do you make it to work in the morning with your pants on your head?