Who is opebo?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If he were a Republican it would not have been quite as surprising--more than a few good posters have been banned because their political ideologies are too sympathetic to the GOP

Has this actually ever happened?

Maybe sympathetic to the very, very far GOP right ala StatesRights.

I thought StatesRights left on his own, no?

Yes, StatesRights was never banned.

The only poster I can think of for whom this could be said to be even remotely true is Derek/barfbag, who was partially banned for his very stupid views, but to say he was banned for being too Republican sympathetic is hilariously wrong. Furthermore he was definitely not a "good poster".

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There an important externality overlooked in the opebo banning, and that is Leip's use of Google Ads as a partial funding mechanism for the Atlas. When links to opebo's past from other boards appeared, those links triggered a response from Google. Google was not going to advertise where those links existed. That brought Leip into the discussion, and in the end it's his Atlas, not ours.

It wasn't opebo who put those links up -- it was Gully, in a concerted, and unfortunately successful, effort to try to ban opebo.

^^^