All banning Hick does is validate that Heart of Lion got a long time member banned by harassing people in chat and on the forum. If his banning in any way derives from Heart of Lion, Hick should be unbanned. Otherwise mods are tacitly approving of Lion's brand of trolling.
The majority of mods clearly do not believe that HoL was trolling and indeed by putting him and Hickboy of equal value to LPSG they have endorsed the HoL genre of trolling, despite having banned him for his grave dancing.
Incidentally, can anyone here point to where Hick breached the restriction placed on him vis-a-vis addressing HoL?
I'll answer that myself - other than myself and Hick there are only five LPSG members who saw what Hick got banned for (outside of the mod team, that is). What Hick did to get banned was posting the PM instructing him to never 'communicate with' HoL again in a social group of 7 members and HoL was not one of them.
The PM sent to Hick, a form PM sent in all such situations apparently, said this:
We therefore have decided, that from the sending of this PM, any further correspondence between yourselves either on the main forum, social groups, in chat or via PM, will result in a ban for the guilty party.
By correspondence we mean, no quoting, no insinuating, no "witty hinting", no prompting others to do it on your behalf, no sending of any PMs, forwarded or directly, nothing, you do not exist to one another.
HoL, not being a member of that group, could never have seen it nor was Hickboy asking anyone to pass any message on or do anything. Hick made no comment at all on the PM - just published it and then, when asked a question refused to comment further.
To my mind Hick was not breaching the terms of what he was asked to do as there was no attempt to communicate.
By the way, as far as I can tell from the comms I've had with him today I'm far more pissed off about this than he is. Maybe I should just be done with it and go for death my mod and get myself out of this shit-pit as well.