My first question is, wasn't this guy banned? But it looks like he isn't.

My second question is, is it acceptable to post extended quotations from this forum in another forum? A lot of this thread seems to be copied here. It says "mirror" at the beginning of the thread here, but it is not a faithful copy, it is heavily edited.

I feel like extended portions of posts should not be copied somewhere else without the permission of the posters, but I'd like to know what others think.