QUOTE(Appleby @ Fri 25th September 2009, 7:42pm)
It's not petty politics. It's ensuring thast there is a congenial environment for people to edit in. I don't think he should have been banned indef but I see the logic in having such bans sometimes.
You can't be serious. He was banned because he got into an argument with a really powerful editor. If he had picked some powerless person like me to argue with, he'd never have gotten into any trouble.