It brings me great sadness to say this... but unfortunately there were no survivors. The mods that did not support me are basically spitting in the face of b1k r1ch and telling him that, "No, we don't want forum activity. Let's keep johnnyq banned." The homies and I are debating giving it another shot in 6 months. What more can the mods want out of those that did not even make it to USL? Most if not all showed character reform, followed the stickies, and waited the correct amount of time. To be honest, they should be unbanned soon as the bans were in a way, an abuse of power. What happened was disgusting but so is denying some of the pardons that were denied. To the Sythe mods reading this, please free my brothers. (I'm not including myself in this because I actually need to pardon =S). You should let them try again in three months or something like that. Although the rules state that you must wait six months, this was no ordinary ban and should not be treated as one. I'm not asking that they be unbanned now, just have some, not even all, bans reduced that you see fit. Some great people that have actually showed remorse and or only played a small role in what happened and their bans reduced: ilovegold69 and iFreshMez. That's fine that my pardon was denied because I was banned for another thing, but the users listed above are high quality. The worst "criminal" out of those users was iFreshMez. He did not leak any personal info outside the skype chat. His pardon should be reevaluated because I thought n4n0 was going to stay out of them, but n4n0 ended up misreading his pardon and kind of fucking him over. Mez is a great guy that made bad decisions like we all do. Ilovegold69 played such a minimal role in the incident that he should be unbanned. I'm sure the mods have already discussed the situation in the past, but now that all pardons are over, and users have shown character reform, I think it is time to reassess the situation.