I have to say, it's quite funny still seeing posts saying that BlackLantern should be brought back, the truth is, the guy was an ass, and I'm pretty sure the mods were too intimidated by him and his popularity to ban him and take the blame themselves.
So, when i called him out on the flaming he was doing, they saw a way of banning him with the heat falling at my feet, and that's fine by me.
I didn't know he was close to getting banned, and wouldn't have called him out on getting away with the flaming if I had known, but I'm glad he's gone now.
but I can see why some folk wanted him around, he was like the 'wetworks' guy they sent in, to be verbally violent towards people they wanted to intimidate for political reasons, they knew he was a distasteful character and used that for their own ends.
There is another poster round here who is trying to do the same kind of thing, a muscleheaded ass who keeps spanking over Bane images and tries to intimidate with veiled threats of violence, he was also saying BL should be brought back, it's ridiculous, why bother talking about it? The wetworks guy is gone, and that's why he's gone.
and I don't mind taking the heat for that, in fact, I'm proud to take the heat for that. His posts were usually just a lot of reactionary rubbish anyway.