Absolutely, positively do NOT lift the ban.

GWW has been a much more productive and positive place since Maxpower has not been part of the community. Threads now generally stay on-topic, there is substantially less noise, less argument, flaming, etc. and the community is much more the way it was before Sean started posting in the first place.

Let's also not forget that he was repeatedly warned before being banned in the first place. He seems to have a pathological need to seek attention, and will do so by whatever means necessary, so regardless of what rules are set, I can pretty much guarantee that he won't follow them.

That is NOT what this community needs.

Further, nothing has changed with regard to Sean's continued defense of his policy of soliciting and talking to underaged guys and other questionable activities.

To be honest, GMS has eroded significantly in the quality of the signal-to-noise ratio because Max after being banned here moved over there, and Mark, in spite of numerous complaints from many, many posters, has failed to do anything to curb the noise ratio.

I and a number of others have cut back on participation and some are very close to dropping participation at GMS entirely because of the lack of moderation and increase in noise (mostly attributable to Max), and I suspect that the only reason Sean is contacting you is maybe because Mark is finally taking note and considering doing something.

We have a wonderful community of people genuinely interested in helping each other, providing useful input and helpful exchange of ideas. Sean/Max has never been a meaningful contributor to any of that in any way. Please, please don't degrade the quality of the wonderful community that exists here by opening the floodgates to more noise. Absolutely no good will come of it whatsoever.