Re: Microbob scammed posts
It's an unusual one.
The guy invented a dumb story for some obscure reason. Maybe he thought it was funny. Maybe he was drunk. Maybe he thought we'd all think twice about our own passwords. Who knows? Maybe he'll tell us later.
I'm sure that quite a few others, mentioning no names, have invented a few stories in the past. This one was about scamming someone, but it wasn't true; it couldn't hold up as being true; it didn't hurt anyone. I don't think it broke too many formal rules.
He's been warned not to do anything similar in the future, by way of a two-days ban.
I can't see a permanent ban being justified. Perhaps there are some arguments for a longer ban, but a three-days or a five-days ban would be absolute tops for such a first offence in my book, and in reality there isn't a whole lot of difference - if a two-days ban doesn't do its "job", I doubt if a five-days ban would, either.
Individual mods generally decide on the punishment to fit the crime, and I'm happy to back Jim's call on this one.
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