Thank you PPK, at least someone remembers that there were other mods before the current bunch, and that I was a huge pain in the ass to them. The mods when I joined WP were Sins, QM, MrMark and Lau, and I clashed with all of them frequently in public, it's all there in the posting record if anyone wants to dig it up.
After I got banned, I realized that it didn't matter if I followed the letter of the rules if they wanted to ban you, they'd find a way. That's when I switched gears from berating the mods in public to lobbying them in private to see things my way, which was a less ban-happy, more leeway given to PPR kind of way. Anyone who was there in 08 or 09 been in there lately? It's a bit different now, isn't it?