START has been reinstated.

We banned him by mistake and have found and corrected our error.

Our apologies both to START and to KyleRayner1 for our screwup.

your humble TubaDiva

Will he rechristen himself RESTART?

Fresh START?

COMMENCE, perhaps?

DON’T LET’S, maybe?

Should we press the start button, then?

The Rolling Stones are touring now, so: START Me Up?

Man, that STARTled me a bit… wipes brow

An apology to START and KR. Sorry for accusing you before. ::Eats humble pie of crow’s feet::

So it was you who STARTed all this…

Are your logs that inadequate?

Not really. But I might have contributed to it.

Any chance you could rachet it back a bit. Perhaps START (hee hee) like this:

“How did this happen and how did you discover your mistake?”

More flies with honey dontcha know. I’m definately curious.

Actually, I was trying the honey approach there. What the logs show is something likely beyond the ability of the mods to change, as that is a server issue. More diplomatic to suggest this was a technical problem than imply, say, the mods were incompetent in reading the logs.

Well, shut me down…

I don’t know exactly what investigative tools (technological or otherwise) were used either in the initial decision, or in this new one. And probably, the mods would prefer to keep it that way. The fewer people who know how such investigations are made, the harder it is to try to game the investigations. We don’t want the wrongdoers to be able to say, “Aha, so if I just push this button and reconfigure through the main deflector dish, they won’t be able to detect me!”. The Powers that Be have admitted that they made a mistake, and have corrected it. That should be enough information for the rest of us.

Perhaps it is time for you to take a chill pill, or move your crusade to the Pit?

I thought the strategic arms reduction talks were back on. Eighties flashback!

I wonder how long it will be until people START

with the bad puns. And also with accidentally submitting posts before they are finished.