From what I can gather from your initial post and that last thread on KFC:
1. KFC puts up new rules, clamping down on "inappropriate material" (completely subjective in its definition of course, I'll grant you that)
2. Not long after you post a rather tame but still slightly risqué image (no nudity, but enough skin to get some folk in a lather no doubt!)
3. It goes missing, you complain (you're not alone in that). This is removed by a mod, you complain about that.
4. Mod PMs you, threatening a ban if you don't quit the complaints. You complain
again, then get banned.
Now it doesn't take a genius to see where you went wrong here (and by that I don't mean you were wrong in wanting to complain, you clearly had something to complain about). Yes the mod should have been upfront about all his actions, but as you've said elsewhere in this thread: he has all the power and you don't. You're an intelligent guy Mark, you must have known the score when the image was removed in the first place, so why kick up a stink over something so trivial? It's not even that good a pic! Why even post it in the first place in light of the new rules? I understand you had principles to maintain, but in the grand scheme of internet transgressions the surreptitious removal of an erotic image by a moderator isn't really much of a big deal. Removing posts that criticise a moderator's decision is plain unfair, but hey: you shake it off.
This is gonna sound borderline "anti American" and it is a bit of a lazy generalisation, but I've been around the internet long enough and joined up to enough American forums run by American moderators to know that
in general they don't fuck around like us Brits. If they feel someone is challenging their authority and causing a forums stink they will whitewash the whole thing and ban you behind the scenes. I've seen it happen so, so many times on Anime boards over the years. Heck I saw it a few months back on Blu-ray.com in the Halloween BD thread. You're now in a situation where you feel you can't possibly go back to a forum you've been a prominent (some would say essential) member for almost a decade. I admire your tenacity in upholding your principals, but I'm willing to bet good money that you're hurting more than Taeko is right now! The only way you beat petty moderators is to swallow your pride and be almost unctuously polite with them when you
do have to complain, riling up mods rarely ends well in my experience! Not once have I ever seen a mod step down in a situation where it's one member's complaints about censorship or a ban, even after the fact when more members later rally to defend that member. Site owners/admins almost always take the side of their staff over the regular members. Maybe that's just me though!
Like I say though, I sympathise with you & if I were a member of the KFC forums I'd be one of the first guys calling for your reinstatement, because it's absolutely ridiculous slapping an indefinite ban on someone just for rudely challenging a handful of moderating decisions! God knows how these people cope in the real world away from the "authority" afforded them by websites and work.
Or rather, Yubari culture as one friend pointed out 
I can imagine worse people spitting beer on me. Damn, the director seems like quite a character.
Life goes on... KFC is just one forum (and a declining one at that). The real experts (not me) don't post very often, if at all. 
