@Garr
There is nothing wrong with greed but there is a hell of a lot of wrong in being dishonest.
I concur 100%. Honesty is something that I, and most people (I would hope) value over everything else. You have no idea how disappointed I am in myself for proving that I can be dishonest.
Garr, I'm sorry, but didn't you know you were being dishonest while using you sockpuppet to pump up your auctions? So you are disappointed because "you proved" of being dishonest
by being caught?
Frankly, I respect your apology, but what you are writing right now is not helping you at all.
Making a sockpuppet account to pump an auction is extremely easy. You register it, you connect through a VPN or Tor, and mods can't do sh*t about it. The only thing stopping people to do that is principles, honor and honesty. When you think about that kind of situation, you can feel in two ways: a) happy for being "so smart" to be able to scam people some money, or b) feel bad for cheating people. I think you really felt great using Werner, as you used it continuosly and without any remorse until you got caught.... You even used it to troll Josh and praise yourself just a few moments before being caught:
I am laughing hysterically... This obscene adult is being shown up by a seventeen year old who runs his business flawlessly!!!
Frankly Garr, I gave up having faith on your honor and principles when you publicly humiliated yourself to get your miners. And now I gave up on your honesty too.
Of course people can change: you are extremely young, and I guess you will learn a lot from this. But the real lesson is that things have real consequences.