ehhh enough talking about this, I think you guys knew the answer before you even posted it anyways...
One of the beauties of being a moderator is the ability to reply after a topic is closed. So I think that I will take the last word.
There has been a great deal of talk over this; it's been made to look a lot like TRF is being some sort of bully, like the staff won't "let it go" and we're "holding a grudge", and thus somehow being unfair.
Let me make this known for everyone at TRF. I want the story straight, I want the motives clear.
We have rules and regulations. They are clearly posted. There is a section labeled "Consequences" within those rules, which you can visit here.
The Rebel Faction staff reserves the right to permanently ban anyone who breaks those rules.
Xilen broke those rules. He broke them heinously, he broke them repeatedly, and he broke them in ways that prompted the addition of new rules. He was banned under the name Selesa Malyndar, then under the name Xilen, and then under the name Lianna Fairchild, each time having returned maintaining that he was not the previous person. He held the staff hostage with threats of "destroying" it, by more or less convincing a good portion of the members to leave with him -- because the staff was not permitting him to break the rules.
He is a repeat offender, and, just as the rules state we are permitted to, we have banned him permanently. These are facts. There are no "grudges", no "unfairness", no bullshit like that. This is just us, enforcing the rules we put into place. Xilen knew the consequences of breaking the rules. He knew what the rules were. He knew what the boundaries of common sense and basic morality were. And he broke them anyway.
We don't support the efforts of people who do that. If someone came here tomorrow and spammed the Battlegrounds into oblivion, and then turned around and asked for an affiliation, would we somehow be being "unfair" if we denied them it? What use are rules if there are no consequences for breaking them?
End of story.