The accounts you’re referring to were *completely deleted,* not suspended. At the time, ban filters were put in place to prevent the accounts from being recreated, but nearly all of those filters were removed months ago, by yours truly. The ones that remain are, I can assure you, far more justifiable than the ones I believe you’re referring to.

This has actually caused some additional problems, in that many of the posts made by the deleted accounts have been assigned to “Lir,” making it look as though Lir is some sort of freakish multiple personality. In many cases you can tell who the real poster was by scrolling forward in the threads and looking for quoted text with the original poster’s name, but that’s not something the average person is going to know to do.

So… is there a specific member account you wanted to have restored/recreated?

Sorry I didn’t respond to this sooner - I’ve been on vacation!

However, we’re still a little sensitive about the Israeli-Palestine situation in general, so we do try to avoid taking sides on that issue, or letting things get seriously out of hand, you know, with the name-calling, accusations of racism, things like that.

Also, we don’t let just anybody register, do we? I’ll have to check…

I wanted to warn Feysah that Wikipedia Review censors suggestions that Jayjg is anything other than a fine, upstanding, unbiased editor of Wikipedia. Want to pass that message on to him for me?

Thanks so much in advance.

4.156 has a special place in my heart.

But as you say, poor old Gruff could mean lots of other things that they couldn’t think to have a disambiguous page for.

I think we should all feel a bit “Gruff” about this.