If josh got banned for his conduct, maybe deadcat should also get
banned?
Well, maybe, yeah. I am not a channel operator, though. Also note that
deadcat is AFAIK at least a semi-regular, i.e. he spends a considerable
amount of time in #debian and might be helpful at other times. I
believe we should be much more cautious to ban (semi-)regulars not just
on one or two bad occasions, the accusation that Debian Developers are
power-hungry freaks who tend to ban regulars for no good reason has been
voiced before, see this from the same log even:
[01:38] PerfDave: azeem: No, it is true. Every now and again a bunch of
Debian people come along, get all shitty and ban all the
regulars for no reason, then they get bored and fuck off again
and things return to usual :)
I don't think this is actually true, of course, but me should be very
sensitive to this in order to avoid alienating the helpful and good
regulars in #debian.