By an extraordinary coincidence I happen to know whiffey in real life and he doesn't have a top-of-the-range Lotus, it's just a hotted-up Exige. His dad has the top-of-the-range model.
I think what the real problem here is that when the new ed took over a few folks were probably rubbing their hands together in glee thinking that there was going to be a few usernames getting instantly banned.
That wouldn't have been right nor fair.
The way i see it is the ed has started over with a clean slate. He's not going to remove someone simply because he's had umpteen emails from people saying this person or that one said this or called me that in the past.