(Cancelled and resent, due to mod bounce for quote length, sorry if this is a dupe.)
This may be a stupid question, and beside the main point, but what kind of website owner can be banned and locked out of his own website? Call me Machiavellian, but if someone banned me from my own private website, I would shut the thing off, or redirect the domain name to a placeholder (or any number of things that an "owner" can do to wrest control back), and clean house big time. It's a friggin' blog, ferchristssakes. The lunatics have taken over his asylum, and he needs to protect his investment and break out the straight jackets.
That is all, Crockspot