So as you all know, I am a good friend of Dante. We played together, formed gangs and a friend ship. I don't want to loose that and I have lost it ever since he was banned.
I am proposing something, he says he has changed and I believe him and I know trying to persuade you is like trying to reason with a dog to get its bone. However you only had brief encounters with him, and first appearance's are everything therefore I am asking, myself, to all to forgive him. You might not be able to but just try. Has it really been much of a change to you since he was banned, probably not however it changed a lot to me. So here is my idea:
Give him a trial unban for one week, he will play during that time and at the end there is a poll (Only if you have met him ingame, not previous events to be taken into account) whether he should stay. Now you say he should not be given another chance but he should. That vote will be taken as an unban or a ban, none of his stuff should be removed, like grannez said.
I would like to put you into these shoes, I have met a few people who play on this server and their RP skills and just general actions are childish, putting the minimal into roleplay and being an all round twat yet they still play. Dante has changed, I have seen it. Also it's not like he did all the things to troll you, you pushed him out, don't let him be banned for what the community did. I saw it, and I have to say that was not "banter", give him the unban trail, get the verdict and never even talk about this again.
Voltz