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Tony

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Recently a prominent member of bcuk was found to be using a second member account (whitebuffalo) to make comments that heavily promoted their business interests and make slanderous comments about people, regrettably this member has been banned.

Having multiple accounts is something that we try to avoid for numerous reasons; it creates more workload for the software, Admin etc as well as potentially leading to situations like this one. In most cases people let us know and we sort out the second membership by merging it or deleting it, whichever is most appropriate.

In this instance of the above ban, the issue is not that the second account exists, but the way it was used for profit and to attack other people. The second account would have been merged or deleted, just like the many requests we’ve already received and then the issue would no longer exist. However in this case there was no alternative but to ban the user for their actions.

These things happen and usually they are dealt with behind the scenes and there is no impact on the forum membership as a whole, however in this case some people have an issue with the decision that was made, I’ve already heard comments that we ‘entrapped’ the member, that we are lying, have taken things out of context etc. What was written was very plain and straight forward, intended to be understood by the membership of bcuk and the thousands of people that pass through here, there could be no misinterpretation.

This (as well as my comments here) will suffice for an explanation and the issue is closed.
 
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