I'd like to take a moment to make something clear. Yes, Phantom has been banned again. He was banned several months ago (in May) for flaming and harassing other members. We let him return on the condition that he stick to the Trivia threads he enjoyed and kept out of forum debates since that's what got him into trouble in the first place. A few months passed, and he conveniently forgot our agreement and started creating threads and posting in General Chat. We let it slide, because he seemed to be trying to keep a low profile. But this recent outburst violates our terms and when a discussion was had, he got very defensive. I have talked about him with the staff, and we feel we have been very generous with him. He denies that it was his fault he was banned, denies ever trolling, flaming, or harassing other members, and insists that we are playing favorites.

He declared that he was leaving and that we could ban him if we wanted because he had no intention or desire to stick by our agreement. I did so.

I wanted to make that clear to all of you before the questions started flooding in. Perhaps I owe it to him to keep all of this private, but with everything he's said to and about the staff, I'm afraid I consider the conditions of his ban fair game for public knowledge. You are free to disagree, but his ban sticks this time.