You make an excellent point.
Long complicated story about that....but I'll condense it best as I can.
Darin got pissed at me over us starting OPE. He didn't actually ban me from AS, because I had like 36,000 posts, and a *s-wordload of content that he thought contributed to the forum. So, he put me on "read only". That way it didn't look like I was banned to any of the members, but I couldn't post, or use the PMs.
Of course, I was sorta pissed too....so I created El Moobs, and used it to message him to ask WTF???
He never replied.
I used that profile for awhile, but not that much. He knew about it, but didn't really care.
Then Tony K (a moderator at AS) joined here, and messaged me about things common to each site occasionally. Who did what to who sorta stuff. Tony is good people. I asked him to talk to Darin about my Mastermind profile. I got regular emails telling me that I was getting PM messages on that profile that I couldn't reply to, or even read. Tony then suggested that I start the Mastermind Worksaws profile and use it. That way people would message me via that account. So, I did.
Years go by. Darin sold AS. I started getting messages from the new owners. I asked them about straightening out my old account. They were cool with it until they realized that I was an administrator at opeforum. Then, they stopped replying to me.
I forgot about it for awhile....till I looked up my 261 thread for a customer. That's when I showed my ass, and got all my accounts banned.
Thats as clear as mud I hope.