Let's get everybody caught up as to the marsman situation.
● At the beginning of the month he started a thread in the Trading Forum that was totally irresponsible, suggesting numerous ways to skirt the law and quasi-legally conduct illegal activities. It was removed and he was warned.
● A short while later, in the middle of the night, he got into a heated back 'n forth with Pekelo (and others) in his journal and hit the Report button 9 times complaining that there was no moderator available to immediately address his concerns. That won't get ya banned, but it was annoying.
● In the midst of that he posted this:
That also didn't get him banned, but did get him a warning.
● Later, against ET policy, he posted:
That kind of stuff will normally get ya banned, but despite the huge EGO that was mentioned earlier in this thread, it didn't.
● And at another time he posted:
Again, easily enough to ban him, but I didn't. Instead I sent him yet another warning, reminding him of our strict No Free Advertising policy and alerting him to the new Vendor Account. But to someone who was supposedly killing it in the market even that inexpensive option was too costly.
● Then he took one of my PM warnings and posted it publicly. I guess he didn't understand that the P in PM stands for PRIVATE but, once again, it was very annoying.
● Next, within his journal he started multiple posts complaining about the moderation, letting readers know that the mean ole mod said not to PM him regarding his solicitation for money (and in doing so reminding them of a non-public way to contact him outside the journal). He was warned that a trading journal wasn't the place for such complaints but he continued posting them anyway.
So while any number of things could have legitimately gotten him banned it was the accumulation of offenses... where enough was enough. I wish him success at T2W but as far as Elite Trader is concerned everybody is now up to date.