He was banned because he made a second account without asking us and pretty clearly intended that account to be kept secret from us, which is against the rules, but more importantly because he used that account to harrass other members. Making another account isn't itself something we'd IP ban someone over, no. I'd love to know who told you that it's staff policy that if you ask to be banned, you can never be un-banned, because that's wrong.

For the record, it was foolish of us to indulge people with "Please ban me so I don't post any more and I'll be back someday". We won't be doing that any longer, so we won't have this problem. A mistake on our part, yes. But yeah, Ferenan isn't coming back here.

TK's second account is deleted now.