daven, I don't know how to best respond to you.

I had no idea that you felt personally slighted by how I ignored your posts. For the 2 days after the ban, I didn't have my usual freetime to hang around and post. I simply had to keep all the discussion consolidated and focused. Once the mods discussion of his possible unbanning sprouted, I couldn't have fractured conversations across two forums and my inbox. I'm sorry for any hurt feelings, that's just how I handled it.

I can assure you that iopq's banning was not ego-driven though it clearly appears that way. I don't know how to explain myself to you on this point.

And I won't be able to get into a detailed discussion of measuring the value of iopq and proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was bad for the forums. On this point, I can only bow to the scores of posters who stop reading and posting in the poker forums who cite him directly. I know you'll ask to name names and that you're out for a bit of blood. But what's done is done. Life moves on.