James86134,
So like 3 or so years ago there was this big fiasco with mod applications because we only had like 3 mods. (At this time WPM was the only one in charge or the forums) So the announcement of mods comes and basically it seems that a lot of old mods just got rehired, so I hear a rumor in the chat that WPM didn't like anyone's applications and just picked a bunch of people he was friends with, so thinking this circumstance was dumb, I put this in my signature. WPM saw it, thought I was complaining about not being a mod, and perma-banned me. I eventually negotiated it down to a week. A week later I come back and Gale posts that he thinks that the decisions were dumb since around 25 people were hired (which was an unheard of number at the time) and many of them were young and immature. Myself and a few other people post that we agree with Gale. Gale gets perma-banned, myself and the others who agreed are banned for another week. The forums were despotic at that time.