an admin perma banning someone is well within his rights, having helped moderate a website in the past i know full well the responsibilites of them.
I'm sure Rooks had his reasons and isn't required to share them. Its also easy to keep him from making new accounts if it really came down to it. Blocking the IP address is a viable way, though i'm not sure if the coding on this site is ready for that.
re: Lordgrim
You got banned for doing something I very plainly told you not to do, and then you got topicbanned from RT for bringing politics in it, which has
always been verboten there. Not real sure where your confusion is coming from. I mostly let you post your ridiculous, moonbat, borderline racist ***in peace, but feel free to continue making me regret that decision.
re: AO
His IP is already blocked. He's been using proxies. I don't really know what he expects the endgame of this to be, and I don't care. I gave him a lot more chances than he deserved, and he still whines. Whatever. So, now, I get to spend time working out more fun ways to keep people from registering on the site and posting, which is shitty.
It's still pretty easy to make new accounts right now; you just need an email address and a linked character. I can't really make it any harder without penalizing legit users, but if there's one thing we've learned about AO, he gives absolutely no *** about anyone else, as long as he can shout about his politics on a video game forum.