Various Smurfs Posted:

None of them were conveniently stickied? There were some very suspicious timings going on then. He was banned because of the spam, the stickies were how he was banned. Anything else and your equivocating.

I believe that was indeed done once. Even if an attempt was made to bend the “mod rules” to ban him at the time, it still required finding a way to follow at least the letter of the rules.