I give him credit for drawing some of the funny pictures he drew (not those green man outline drawings; they might have been good if they weren't run into the ground within a week by others) but other else than that, he sucked. Would often troll the 360 and get away with it while utterances of dissatisfaction with the PS3 would get a permaban. After Home tanked and his Microsoft conspiracy theories, he was no longer necessary.
I will admit that he was one of the less abrasive sfags on the board (that goes to Hans/Snah/Private Hoffman/Trailblazer/TJHooker/Mabuza/etc. and dfyb) and he wasn't outright creepy (kittonwy).
I do think permabans are justified. Some people don't deserve them but there are those, like Futami, that never intended to bring anything to the table to any kind of discussion.