(page 2095 for proof)
yeah actually there's a whole big drama story to go with it too lmao. based on my understanding and fuzzy memory this is what happened:
back in 2012 the site kept going down. a lot of people started to point fingers at this thread because it was so big, people thought it was making the site run slow. Also because it moved so fast back in the day it was hard to moderate, so they locked the topic.
closing the topic didn't fix anything (because the topic wasn't the problem), but somehow people started to think me and Fawkes were kind of like the leaders of the LPW crew and we were purposefully making the site go down, so both of us got permabanned. of course that didn't fix anything either but OH WELL
I forget what happened (new admins?? negotiations working???) but in 2013 we both got unbanned, and then a few months ago we finally got our topic unlocked again.