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There must have been something alot worse later in that other thread that we didn't catch.

No, I went back and looked at the thread, and there didn't appear, judging from the other people's posts, to have been anything more inflammatory later. Must've been a touchy reader and an Admin Moderator with a quick trigger.

Has anyone on this thread ever been banned because someone pushed the abuse button?

I got a one day timeout once, for pushing a parody too far. Back when the democRATS were trying to get McCain the Republican presidential nomination, I conceived of the idea of launching a similar effort to get Gore to make Al Sharpton his running mate. It was a joke that kind of took on a life of its own. We had our own website, a campaign motto ("Two Al's are better than one"), another freeper was making up bumper stickers... Then, someone posted something over the top on a thread I had started, and a few of us got our posting privileges temporarily revoked. I guess the powers-that-be thought that some might take what we were doing seriously, or felt we had pushed the joke too far.

Does it take more then one person reporting abuse to get banned?

Depends on the offense. Something really bad could get a person yanked with just one complaint.

For general misbehavior, a one day timeout is typical. I'm really surprised that they not only yanked his account, but nuked all his posts, too. It is possible that they looked at his IP address, and saw that he was a poster who had been banned previously. In that case, the nuke button would be instantaneous.

Mack came in here and wants me to ask you if you ever got a reply back from JR.

No, I haven't. JR typically only replies if he has something to say, so in this case, no news is good news.