There's nothing ambiguous about the rules and digging up quotes from mods that were posted years ago before the rules changes only serves to complicate matters.
Seems a bit suspect IMO Davie, quoting a post 2 and a half years old from CT who was at the time a Mod but hasn't posted for over 2 years and no longer shows as being a Mod in the page headers.
How / why would someone have looked for or searched for that quote unless they already knew it was posted but he's only been a member since Feb
Coincidentally he reviews in Y&H region the same as the banned OP, 5 posts since June of which 2 are on this thread but he suddenly gets active now once the OP is banned and similar writing style to the OP
My gut thinking is it's a 2nd account