I'd agree with you, Coogan and 1stpar3 if it wasn't for this part:
then I made harmless joke, about the whole situation, because someone else posted the same questions about the viewing system........I said something...."that is a good way to ask....I woulda asked way different" something along those lines....and he deleted that post.....at the time...I was pretty much homeless living out of my shop with my 6 kids...life was extremely bad...wife and i always fighting....kids always fighting...no money...everything was crashing on me..the one place I had to let off steam was AH....and everything just....popped..... and I flipped out on him PUBLICLY here on the boards...
so NO I do not think an Email was the best course of action....I think a PUBLIC apology was the best course of actions.....
I most certainly took responsibility for my actions.....
by PUBLICLY apologizing...you know...taking responsibility for my actions.
hope that clears it up for you.
Essentially saying (justifiably) that he was at a truly crapulent point at the time, and making sure everybody on the boards knows about it. The corollary that goes along with the above being that continuing the ban is continuing to kick a guy who was down at the time, while trying to come off as the better man by PUBLICLY apologizing.
That is what bugs me. It just comes off as backhanded to me. If it absolutely had to be public, I'd respect it a lot more if it had been a simple, "I screwed up, I've done some time, how about a second chance?" as opposed to the above. It reads like it's there to get players on his side to make HT look bad unless he reinstates him.
As far as him coming back, I don't particularly care whether he does or not beyond being happy there's another competent enemy out there. I don't mind Ink, I just don't like the way he went about it here, similar to how I didn't mind him before, and didn't like the way he left.
And if anyone takes exception to the above, don't worry. Best part about it is, Ink doesn't need to convince anybody but HT. All of this is just noise.
Wiley.