[William Terrell]

I'd be curious to know what got him in hot water with the mods.

I would be too. I was working him into a corner and cutting of each of his exits, then the AM pulls the comments. Frustrating. This is the not the first time they've done that to me. I'd work someone who is unclear on How Things Work into a situation where he has to either acknowledge commonsense or make a inaccuracy obvious even to him.

Then in steps the AM and wipes out the chess game.

[inquest]

I really don't think it was anything he said to you that triggered the mod reaction. It either had to be something he said on another thread, or maybe he was discovered to have been a poster who'd been previously banned and signed up under a new name. A full-scale nuking, with all posts deleted, is an uncommonly severe response. It's not something you'd get just for saying "bullfeathers".