Since this happens often, and since Danny is good, I
would support
hardcoding (if necessary) for Danny's special case.
Or, is Danny a sysop? If not, why not? Can't
sysops edit even under
an ip ban? If not, they should be able to, if for no other reason
than self-defense even if some bad person gains access to a sysop
account and tries banning other sysops.
Danny is indeed a sysop (on [[en:]] at least).
For purposes of self defense, note that banned sysops can still unban people.
(This assumes that the ban is only by IP address, however.)
-- Toby