Would You, my-local-people, agree to un-ban account, disable signature and remove regulus from merit source? It's not that it's going to happen anyway.
I think not being able to wear a signature ever again is a step too far, lifting the ban and removing him as a merit source seems like enough. I'm sure the community would vote for him over his merits.
But yes, after reading the last few pages here, I agree it seems highly unlikely. I have a feeling our opinions are worth s**t all.
Everything has been resolved. The user broke the rule several times and has thus faced consequences. Stop wasting time with your "argued discussion". If you want to discuss what kind of consequence plagiarism should have, then go to a thread discussing that.
But was it resolved? All we heard so far is 'unlikely'. It is the same story as when we asked for a moderator. 5 pages without any conclusions, without anybody saying anything concrete and definitive, like you are all waiting for a topic to die out. If it truly has been resolved, please tell us so we stop wasting our time here. I will most definitely not spam the topic if you have made a decision. The thing is - you did not. At least you did not tell us what it is. I do not even know who makes these decisions.
Permaban with a option to appeal is fine unless/until a more lenient but equally consistent approach is developed - e.g. permaban for ranks below Sr and permanent signature ban for Sr and above.
Ok, agreed, that is why we are here. But if the rule is permaban with an option to appeal and so far only 1 permaban has been removed based on appeal, then there's something wrong with implementing these rules. Wouldn't you agree?
I strongly believe that anyone doing this does, and will continue tagging people (where it makes sense; e.g. not new spambots) for it. You can repeat your opinion a hundred times using 100 friends from the local section, it won't matter. People who are almost never involved outside of their respective local sections have no say in what constitutes a proper trust rating as they usually have no knowledge or experience with any of this.
See, this here is just extremely funny. I do not know who a trustworthy person is because I do not spend enough time on an internet forum? There is life outside of BTT, it is truly shocking that somebody believes they have better knowledge of people because they scan the forum day after day. Your knowledge of the rules is superior, your experience with spammers is superior, but that's exactly why we are here. Hopefully, based on your experience, you can understand this is not a usual spamming case, half of our community is here expressing opinions and vouching for RegulusHR.
So, basically, what you are saying is that you do not trust a person whose posts you probably do not read day after day (I have not seen you on local boards at all), you do not trust us who are here in numbers defending him and explaining who he is, but you believe in strict forum rules and abide by them? Isn't one of those rules the rule to appeal a permanent ban and to be judged fairly?
You can state your opinion as many times as you want, it's just that nobody in their right mind is going to give a single quack about it.
And this is just plain wrong. I, for one, give a quack about his opinion, much more than I give about yours, because he is a guy from a local board who I communicate with regularly.
To summarize - I feel that as a community we have voiced our opinion clearly. RegulusHR spends all his time there, we know who he is and that he is trustworthy, we feel a huge injustice is being made because of a c/p made ages ago. He even admitted it, apologized and said he will strive to do better. He truly is one of the most respected members we have, all we ask is to study this case properly and not reject it in advance because the rules say all copy-pasting is punished equally.
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