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Jim,

I guess the obvious response is, permabans don't seem to work as they'll just come back as something else (e.g. check BBV4L - in any given thread you'll have at least a handful of pretty new accounts who seem to know everything that's going on). I just don't think it has the bite you think it does, at all. I thought you were playing some sort of mod forum "who would you ban" game where mods could vent about their most troublesome regulars.

As for Degen, he sent me an e-mail maybe a month or so ago asking if I would run his reinstatement up the flagpole. I told him to e-mail Mat, simply put I don't know enough about the backstory to go to bat for him and as such am not comfortable doing so. He seemed to agree with this and said he would let it slide for a bit longer.