Read rule #25 and then you can see why I assume that account was banned (No I did not ban it).
Dude if you read and follow the rules you can say almost ANYFUCKINGTHING here on this forum. I have yet to see a user following the rules receive a ban for just a controversial opinion.
Although the forum is absolutely centralized you will find very few medium that allows you as much freedom as here. Just don't break the very few, very simple rules and you will be 100% fine!
I would just like to point out that in 2011 the account "etlase" was squelched (not banned, but unable to post) and had roughly 30 posts deleted for being overly opinionated and anti-bitcoin. You can see in the posting history
here, where the account was accused of being a professional troll by a global moderator, although there is a distinct lack of context available. Apparently russians later hacked the account after posting privileges had been restored.
Ok so one time 7 years ago a poster "apparently" had his rights to post revoked and then re-instated. Could be a mistake was made, who know's. IF you're correct 1 time in 7 years over almost 2 million users, sounds like a good record to me!
I don't know what warnings he has received or what was the real original reason for his ban, but if subsequent bans are merely because of "ban evasion" maybe it's time to just drop it and let him post? If he is really mucking up individual threads, maybe allow the thread creators to turn them into moderated threads and moderate the discussion themselves?
Or you know he could just follow the rules like the rest of us, hell I don't really know why that is a foreign concept to people around here? Is this fucking bizzaro land or something...