And to those of you who seemed to make it your personal task to drive him off, shame. I know he clearly played his part in this whole issue but there were many times that people could have simply "moved on" and left Eye to his opinion instead of attacking him but you didn't.
Sometimes it takes a better man to make the better choice.
I must say I'm genuinely stunned to find that eye95's disingenuous tactics worked on even a single person.
When it comes to eye95, I will not hesitate to reply to this post with: "it takes two to tango".
I was asked at one point by a poster here to redact a post I made to avoid further inflaming eye95 (so as to delay the self-banning we eventually saw). I did so. I suspect others were quite willing to let it drop rather than "attack" eye95 as well.
But that's only one side of the story.
In addition to persistent intellectual dishonesty, eye95 is one of the most passive-aggressive individuals I have ever encountered, routinely poisoning discussion with manipulative false "civility". He repeatedly used this tactic to goad people into heated discussions where he could, to a superficial observer, appear to be "attacked".
I truly didn't start this threat to gloat (or to make posts like this) – I started it for the humor (I suppose it's a little serious as well). Despite the above I suppose I, too, would prefer to keep ol' eye95 around.
But the discord that lead to eye95's eventual "dismissal" was
always a very thoroughly two-way street.