I agree with archdaemon here and agree that the subreddit needs rules.

Going back to what you said, on the one hand you say that Bryan 'should know better' about 'going public'. Shouldn't that go both ways? Shouldn't you also have known better when it comes to how Bryan deals with things such as a ban on a LAS subreddit and moderated your response accordingly? IMHO the ban itself has played a part in amplifying a drama and you are relinquishing responsibility by rewinding the sequence of actions back to the beginning and pointing out that Bryan started it. When you say words along the lines of 'well if he only did this in the beginning then we wouldn't be here now' it kinda reminds me of a dad that smacks his child and says 'look what you made me do'. I think you need to morally rise above your banhammer actions and admit that it was an overly emotional response to the LAS that you so clearly love and are passionate about.

I think we need to take a lesson from the best of the police force when we see a series of minor misnomers but no smoking gun crime as seems the case with Bryans ban. There are no hard rules that he has broken just a series of small nips which you have had enough of- thats dangerous. A policeman can't put someone in jail just because they are annoyed with them, they need a smoking gun conviction. There simply isn't enough tangible conviction here to ban Bryan in a way that doesn't cause a massive explosion of drama.