I think they forget sometimes. I had to ask for Chaffinch to be UNsuspended and she was. Not posted again though last time i looked.
Do you want RIG back again then?
I wonder if ssupended users get an email asking them whether they are ready to come back and operate within the rules. Some may choose to return; some may choose not to; some may have registered with a disposable/fictitious email address so never receive the invitation; and others don't bother because they have already returned under a new name
Some ABers were very bad an deserved to get the chop. However, some simply failed to accept admonishments from Ed to desist in a particularly contentious thread and after final warning were sent to the place of eternal damnation. CB has fewer characters these days.
ladybirder - Kerosene (aka paraffin) only returned in that guise because eyethenkyew had been suspended. When unmasked (and subsequently zapped) his immediate return as OrcadianOil lasted less than 5 minutes before extinction. His re-return as ahmskunnirt ended last night.
I suspect a love of animals is not enough to mitigate breaking Site Rules.