If I might ask, how were you more sure about previous Precamb dupes than you are here? The way I understand it you've never been able to use IP checks to dig him out because he's masked it. Apart from them, what is there?
An honest answer to this question would really accomplish nothing other than giving him ideas as to how to better cover his tracks.
The_Sean!
Ah yeah, hadn't thought about that - fair enough. Will see if I can catch you privately to discuss.
As I say, I never had that much of a problem with Precam and I'd not be against giving him a second chance \ forgiving him. But any second chance must be given because he's apologised and asked to be forgiven, not because he's tried so hard that he's been allowed to break one of the most important CW rules. He'd need to start by admitting his sins in terms of duplicate accounts and promising not to repeat that.
I agree. He tried to apologize once but that was half truth and half lies. If he comes out honest, if Sledger can be given another chance (and he has proven to be a well rounded member) when he makes a sincere request, any one can IMO. A precedence has already been set there. Precambrian only adds to the forum by contributing to it when he is not attacking other members, which he usually doesn't do.
Think that's overstating it. I don't care if he stays or he goes and have never really had any issues with him in any of his various guises; but the fact remains that if perma bans are so easy to circumvent they become effectively meaningless.
sledger didn't apologise, there is no precedent. His ban was lifted because it turned out the reason he was banned was non-existant.
As I said, I hoped I didn't over state. I am not sure if I did or I did not and there is a fair chance I might/mightn't have.
It was a six-monther. He served the lot. I cbf with the hyperbole in the rest of the post as it doesn't really matter but whether he 'nearly' got a perma or not (and basically you're speculating, given that, you know, you aren't a mod) it's not a precedent.
