When a tiger's asleep, it has the potential to be dangerous. When you poke a sleeping tiger with a stick you can expect it to make supper of your arse.
The guys who are currently banned decided, rightly or wrongly, to poke a mod with a stick and the expected happened.
Previous bans have been revoked but we're now at the stage when not only does the mod not want to "unban" them, they wouldn't want to post on the "Great Satan" SI Board anyway.
I know the guys personally, having spent the Telford weekend with them, enjoying Football, Curry and beer, and they're great blokes.
Without taking anything away from the current LLaMas the Forum's worse off without them.
*Absent friends*