He was, it is bent four and should be dead. I’ll ask around 
also for those curious about bent four and how rulesets handle it - check out this wonderful thread: Life and Death under Chinese Rules
He means he was chatbanned at the time.
And for the record and anyone reading this and not knowing the best way to handle these situations is just by “calling moderator” from the right slide-out panel. The button works for everyone - chatbanned or not, and usually nobody else can help in these cases. Although in this particular one I guess OP was trying to reach out for someone else to explain the rule (since he couldn’t), which I get. But the response time on forums is usually hardly sufficient for live games