Well, I don't blame you for wanting to keep contact with friends CHEWIE, and I can see your wanting your account open. Like Matt often did at Rebelscum, I think it's a good trading community... I have my likes of it.
And I'm not hell-bent against their staff either... I think Mark is a cool guy, Dan Curto's cool too and a co-hort of mine over at FFURG.com... I've even had fair and personable dealings with Philip, despite the things being said of him, but I also can observe that Philip was out of line (whether his site or not) by disrespecting such a large and obviously upset group of people. Dismissing the feelings of an individual, at times, can be excused... But dismissing the feelings of a large, and upset group, plus adding insult to their perceived injury, is not tactful or even commonly polite.
Of course, this is all just my opinion on something I can't change.
There's very few people I'd put on my list that I "hate". Even fewer whom I have never met and know only as a persona online... Those I often just dislike and think very little off, or simply have no respect for them to act a way online one knows they'd never act if you met them in person.
Philip Wise I don't hate, despite the things said here, nor Dustin (who I know even less really), but my opinion stands that this is a poorly handled situation on Rebelscum's part... Their site is nice, and I check Scum daily at least, but their forums seem like a secondary level of importance to them, and to basically insult such a large group of people (unnecessarilly) is just not good form.
Scum has some conversations I enjoy but those become fewer by the month I find. This whole mess, and a mess it certainly is, has only added to my dwindling opinion of the forum there I'm afraid. Before it was being concerned at how there was never any punishment to the "trolls" that reside there, but now it's down to the entire way the site is run, and even what I consider an abuse of their power... Glad you got let back in CHEWIE, but to me the damage is done as far as how I see the forum there.