The business model of the forum is to sell advertising as real estate on the site and click throughs. Real estate is valued by the number of people who view the page. This issue has created At least 3 topics and heading for a hundred posts, god knows how many hundreds of page views. This is all beneficial to the site owners.
Maybe the best way of getting GTE reinstated is to just stop talking about it and going elsewhere until we hear ( over there) that he is reinstated with all his previous posts and a public appology!
No traffic here means no revenue.
Caber