Shelby (aka @AnonyMint) claimed the opposite up-thread.
He claims he was banned originally because he wrote critically about Monero and Ethereum and because he was insulting (those who were also insulting Shelby) influential anonymous members such as @gmaxwell
1, @Foxpup, @stereotype, @Lauda, @iCEBREAKER, etc..
Shelby claims that the original multi-posting allegation (which he entirely stopped doing a long-time ago) is something everyone does (
look here is a link to (archived
here) @aliashraf doing it yesterday) and was a fabricated reason to silence him because he is the one who speaks with the most critical technological rigor on the entire forum.
A clear indicator that he is a
delusional troll. If you believe that he has made anything more than a couple *decent* technological remarks, then you are equally delusional. All he does is post walls of technical gibberish which require too much valuable time to address given their size and repetitiveness (ad naseum).
Fact is, he broke rules for which others also get warned/temp. banned (perm. banned for continuity and/or ban evading).
The solution is simple I feel from here.
Anonymint makes an agreement directly with Theymos to reactivate one of his legendary accounts ... maybe the anonymint original or which ever AM wants on the basis he WILL follow the rules as they are.
Then in future ONLY Theymos can ban him, but then if banned will not return.
This may seem like special treatment for AM but then sometimes if someone has put in exceptional effort for the board then they can have a bit of special consideration from the board owner.
Completely disagreed. For the super majority of people we wouldn't even consider
bending the rules this much. The forum needs to dedicate its resources to combating the issue with spam and not debating whether the banned troll should be unbanned temporarily (and given their behavior, they'd get themselves banned again relatively soon).