Hah, thanks I guess ... I wasn't planning to get banned... but now that it happened it does in fact feel kinda good :)
I am considering going nuclear now and DMing the top posters in the original GMECanada sub, inviting them over here explicitly. I'd bet the reddit-wide admins would drop the hammer though. It depends how panicky they are about users leaving the whole site in general. I'm sure they're monitoring DMs across the site to see if users or mods are discussing fleeing the platform...