Seems like he was only posting helpful annoucements, it's not like he was deceiving people with stolen content. A perm ban seems unfair imo.
I agree, I would think a commercial service would not mind that their announcement is being disseminated, even "plagiarized." Isn't that what going "viral" is all about? The only thing that they would have issue with is if the person modified the links to direct to a phishing website or other scam.
Is this what happened there ? or are you just giving an example of what we need to be careful about?
I mean I am willing to help people who have through nobodies fault really been struck off ( i mean reporters do good work i know this but we just need to make sure some done accidentally become snagged by the well meaning net)
I have not examined the entire post history but on these examples he seems to not be the kind of person we are desperate to rid the board of.
I hope staff will have another look at him and see what can be done.