While sad for B-Cell, I honestly couldn't stand him and don't have much sympathy for him. He barely bothered to change at all and just kept repeating the same mistakes over and over, unprovoked or not. He's on the Easy Allies forums and he knows he has nowhere else to go, so he doesn't act up as much over there. But most of the users on that forum don't like him either. It's the same with Yoshi being there too.
Pretty much just turned into a debate about bans and the ban system overall.
Funny enough, that was what surprised me about your ban as well. I saw what you were going for (Though your intentions you clarified on after the fact helped explain exactly what the plan was) and I thought "Damn, that was sudden and swift." I didn't expect someone to get outright banned for something like that, regardless of what the intention was
Ezekiel came back on Escapist v2. He hasn't posted in a month, but he hasn't been banned again.
Most people I miss just left on their own accord. The only person I really miss due to a ban was Rolling Thunder from v1, and that was a l-o-n-g time ago. Like, 2013 or so. He got banned because he would very directly tell people who put down particularly stupid and/or objectionable comments what he thought about it. Can't say he didn't deserve it by the forum rules, but he had a lot of interesting things to say.
Pretty sure they are, I've made a lot of posts that are only gifs and never received a warning over them, the only warning I've received was over insulting someone, which I did and I didn't object to it.
Not really, it was one of those "I don't care if this gets me banned" posts. He'd already been banned from a bunch of other places.
Why do people do things like that? If you're going to leave a place, just leave. If you think you can't resist the urge to come back, then randomize your password and delete all your contact information. I've done that.
Getting banned from a website doesn't delete any of your information that was on said website.
I do know he did get along with some of the users on the forum. It did not help as he would be aggressive and protest loudly about certain opinions on threads. Even I got in to an argument with him once on Easy Allies. Oh well, it was his choice. If I had to guess, it's make sure all of his personal information was permanently deleted and have no reason to come back. He did not like the format of forums section either. Not that I can blame him on that case, as even I don't like how the forums are set up and much prefer this format and DMC's forum layout.
Oh, I can only imagine how that went.
