FWIW....Rethnal is a great guy, and my usual riding partner. However, peeing contests are much older than message boards (Yes, even the old text-based types that were around before most people knew what a computer was :) ), and are going to happen from time to time. It has been my experience that most of the time rage gets insighted in someone that's been asked to do something it's due to the fact that they weren't asked to do so in a manner that made them want to do it. This is called diplomacy, and must ALWAYS be used by the higher authority (in this case Okie)when handling such problems as to not worsen the situation. That being said I would like to note that IMO a public reply to a 'snuck in' post all while acting in an equivelant childish manner is just as bad as whatever trash-talk got Rethnal banned. We have seen this before, which is probably why Rethnal was reluctant obey Okie's requests. Okie, this is your site (of which we pay to be on) that you are dictator of. Please do everyone including yourself a favor and act like a king, and not like the prince in which no one respects. I'm not saying that your request to Rethnal for a sig change was unreasonable at all(even though I liked it), but IMO you handled the situation improperly...
BTW, I'm glad to hear that Rethnal's suspension is only temporary. I don't think he knew that his 1st ban was a one-day suspension, or I doubt he would've done a thing--could be wrong--could be wrong about all of it, and I'll find out on our ride this weekend.....
Cheers!