He probably doesnt have time for this. You broke the rules and you got banned. Usually it doesnt matter if you did a lot of « great » for the forum over the years.
If you did a lot of great work for this forum I hope one copy and paste would not be a perm ban. Depending on severity of the instance. We are trying to rid the forum of serial spammers who have nothing to say of their own that is of any value and is just there to gain them a few bucks promoting some spam campaign. I would not want to get rid of many good legend members for this kind of thing.
I agree with you. I know yeswepump because he's a member of the Italian community and he's always been very active and helpful with several projects/bounties. He made a few mistakes but banning him in my opinion is a bit too much, maybe a suspension would have been better especially because he recognized more than once in this thread that he was wrong, it would be a pity losing a good user like him.