- lovesmayfamilies
- WhiteManWhite
We have three DT1 members banned within the banwave,
bill gator,
lovesmayfamilis, and
WhiteManWhite. Interestingly to see their permanent bans all lifted and they received alternatives with temporary bans plus signature bans with different periods.
Only bill gator received additional unexpected thing, negative feedback due to his admission on his account buying in the past. Within the banwave and related discussion, I have read that the forum even has one moderator whom started years ago with bought account, so after significant contributions over long period, he or she became forum moderator. It's a big pleasure as well as recognition of forum on his or her contributions.
For bill gator, I think that he does not deserve negative feedback solely because he bought this account years ago. More importantly, since the day he bought this account, he made loads of contributions for the forum, rather than scammed others. There was nothing wrong with bill gator before his ban appeal released.
If admin or global moderator actually lifted permanent ban, it means bill gator net-effects recognised, so I think he deserves better things rather than suddenly rocketing negative trusts.
Edited:I think bill gator investigation finished by theymos, now it's time to solve the rest (negative feedback)
This is part of why account trading is strongly discouraged. Usually we won't even consider this excuse, since only admins can properly investigate it, it takes too much time, it's often too ambiguous, and you really shouldn't be trading accounts anyway. But especially for very veteran members, we do occasionally look into these claims and reconsider the matter based on them. This isn't the first case like this: there are a surprising number of notable members who originally bought their accounts.
After looking at the logs, I find it likely that this story is true, so it wasn't him personally who did the plagiarism. Trading accounts is strongly discouraged, but not against the rules. Therefore, the ban is removed.
This action may be controversial, and now I'll probably have everyone appealing based on "I bought the account from my neighbor!" (Which I'll nearly always reject...) But even though it is largely bill gator's fault, I just find it on the whole too unfair to treat him as though he did something when I'm looking at evidence showing that he didn't.