Microbob scammed posts

[Jim Kuhn]

There have been several people hacked/scammed in the past couple of years from these forums. I think the fact the poster was on here bragging about it diminishes the chance it was legitimate.

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
Catfish4u
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[MicroBob]

yes, all is well.

was multi-tabling on stars so didn't see the thread. I got Jim's e-mail about the thread WHILE playing on Stars with everything fine which I thought was kind of funny.

Only a very select few know my Stars handle anyway.

Since I didn't see the thread I don't know the name of the poster who did this.
I would think this almost definitely has to be a perma-ban though.

Some guy brags about hacking my acct abnd stealing my money and it's only a 2-day suspension?

If he's allowed to stay on 2+2 I would like to know who he is. I think that's fair.
I also believe I deserve to know what the final decision is regarding his ban/suspension.


Was it a poster with more than 100 posts who I would actually recognize?

[TheNoodleMan]

posters name was "broke rounder"

Had about 125 posts over 2 years.

[MicroBob]

yes, I've seen him.
He didn't seem like a bad guy to me although I think he might have ticked a couple people off.
Obviously now he's kind of ticked me off a tad.
I don't think I had done anything to him.

[Bobo Fett]

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posters name was "broke rounder"

Had about 125 posts over 2 months.

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FYP

And his last post was an interesting addition:

BR's friend the scammer?

[JPT III]

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yes, all is well.

was multi-tabling on stars so didn't see the thread. I got Jim's e-mail about the thread WHILE playing on Stars with everything fine which I thought was kind of funny.

Only a very select few know my Stars handle anyway.

Since I didn't see the thread I don't know the name of the poster who did this.
I would think this almost definitely has to be a perma-ban though.

Some guy brags about hacking my acct abnd stealing my money and it's only a 2-day suspension?

If he's allowed to stay on 2+2 I would like to know who he is. I think that's fair.
I also believe I deserve to know what the final decision is regarding his ban/suspension.


Was it a poster with more than 100 posts who I would actually recognize?

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Seriously. 2 days for bragging about hacking someone's account?!?! What if he had actually stolen the money -- banned for 5 days, perhaps?

I also think 2+2 should disclose this guy's identity (if they know it), if not to everyone, at least to Microbob.

[Mike Haven]

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.

[Peter Harris]

anyone else think the law courts need more people like Mike in residence? I don't think i've ever seen an unfair call in his existence.

[Mike Haven]

Thank you, Peter. Judging from the content of some of the pm's I've received, unfortunately you might be in a small group there! [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

I was also thinking, wouldn't it be ironic if the guy's Twoplustwo account had been hacked? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[brendanb438]

Some guy made up a story about stealing your money and you want him permabanned? Please DramaBob. Please.

-Brendan