So this happened.
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/infraction-for-bushido11-17-permanent-ban.834052/Now, here's where I start scratching my head. Bushido11 was banned in 2018 for, quote:
There are three large problems with what you've posted. First, you were banned from this thread, yet here you are posting in it again. Second, responding to redtext is against the rules, and here you are doing that, too. And lastly, not only did you sealion in support of MRAs, which is a violation of our sexism policy, you decided to do the above violating of your threadban and replying to moderator redtext in order to*continue to sealion in support of MRAs.
This blatant and willful disregard of*multiple*rules of this site at a single stroke like that indicates that you're not going to be a good fit here, and as a result you're permabanned under Rule 1 and Rule 10. Appeals may be sent to the Admin email.
On Saturday, March 20, Sphinx of Black Quartz posted that his ban was reversed on appeal. However, if you access bushido11's post history, he started posting again on the 12th, over a week before the announcement.
I could buy it taking a day or so to dig up the infraction record, but eight days? And for a three year old ban for 'poor fit on the forum' and 'supporting MRAs'?
Now, I suppose after three years bushido11 wrote an amazing verbal sucking-off of admin that got them to reverse the ban. Or that the originator of said ban (ANT Pogo) had departed and someone else decided he had been too harsh. But this just seems a BIT suspicious and weird.
I could be wrong, I admit. But does this trip the shenanigans detector for anyone else?