It goes like this :

After sitting out the ban-period your posting rights are not automatically restored. Instead you first have to contact the Forum Admin with a humble plea to restore your posting rights. The more self-humiliating "mea culpa" (it's all my fault) the better.  The answer I got was "it would be considered". Apparently they are still considering.

When the new forum was finally fully (?) functioning I found out I could post again.  I opened a new thread about my freebies with 6 posts of my own. When I wanted to return to that thread I couldn't find it anymore. I blamed it on the "functioning" of the new forum. Until I noticed I couldn't post anymore either.

That's what you get with a Forum Admin governing the place as his little kingdom with little or no supervision from his superiors, as was confirmed by his former CEO, Dan Farr.

I have now contacted their technical support to ask why I can't post. Flanking attack, according to The Art of War.

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