I don't think this is a valid ban because you are not paying users directly to post on your thread. Giving coins to users on your own site or any third-party website doesn't qualify as incentivized posting, as far as I understand.
From my understanding, a ban should be issued if the user is asked to post their altcoin address on the forum and paid within that, if you are paying the user off-forum then it should never qualify as incentivized posting.
I repeat, no user was asked to post their USDT address on the forum, hence according to my limited understanding of the forum, it shouldn't deserve a ban, let alone 2 months.
Most of the threads in the Games & Rounds section have mentioned prizes in USD so do they all deserve a ban? I don't think so
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Given all the good he has done to the forum and gambling community, I hope he gets unbanned.