Making a joke about begging for +1's on his application is basically begging. You would have to have a pretty simple minded sense of humour to find that kind of thing funny anyway.
Also, when someone joins with the name of a perm banned person it gives the impression that the banned person is ban evading. Banning the person temporarily and letting evolv check if its the perm'd person or just someone impersonating is the most logical thing to do so I don't see any issue with what anon did there.