Huh what this didn't show up on my notifications.
The most basic point of a ban is to get a user off the site for a given amount of time, as punishment for bad behaviour and to hopefully make them value their account more. Fire was banned because he refused to leave other members alone and refused to take responsibility for the things that he said. He had been given severe warnings by both me and SP and seemingly ignored them.
Now, if SP had perma-banned him over a private conversation that would be a different matter. But this was a public, forum-related IRC involving what were pretty much extensions of discussions going on here. He was still playing forum police, still insulting other users and still acting as though his actions were justified based on his own unreasonable evaluations. Overall he showed absolutely no evidence that he wouldn't immediately continue the behaviour he got banned for the moment it expired, so I say why make things more painful than they need to be? If he's going to deliberately wind SP up he can deal with the consequences. I've got no sympathy for him, and he has more than enough for himself anyway.