He's banned. Guess it's a temp ban though
How do you know he is ban? Sorry not very much familiar with modlog page, I think that's where you find out thing?
He is one of those who is engaged in restoring accounts on the forum. Therefore, it has access to such information.
FYI:
The humans handling the new account recoveries system which was implemented late last year are a company that Cyrus created called
Cryptios. alanst, 3dOOm, and
Rizzrack -- the "mysterious newbies" who some people noticed -- are three of their employees. They've been doing a great job.
Although Cyrus created the company with bitcointalk.org in mind as their first customer, they are accepting additional customers. Their main specialization right now is high-security, social-engineering-proof customer support & community moderation.