Well, if the policy is evenly enforced. the policy is the policy, what is your problem?
Plenty of places do not allow the, shall we say, free ranging discussion tolerated here, and they are also useful.
If however, you were picked on for something everyone else did all the time, that would be a valid response.
I do not breathlessly follow barbters every post, but he is less annoying and out front confrontational than literally dozens of other posters, so, unless I missed something particularly egregious, I do not understand his ban
Gordon stated no pooping his sandbox, and in that one tiny subforum, he is master. If you expect to go in that subforum and get away with what can be done in 'MIAAE' or 'SMAOI' I think you will be disappointed at the response