I would like to know just how bad hacker’s spamming was to the forum. How large of a shilling army did he have? How long ago did he stop bump spamming (in relation to when the bump spam protections went into place)?

I don’t think he had/has only two forum accounts but I don’t have solid proof (see my previous post). If he caused an especially large amount of damage by the use of using a large number of sock puppets, that would reflect poorly on him and maybe the flags are warranted. If he used a small handful of accounts to bump spam for only a short time that stopped many years ago, it might be best to forgive and move on.

I don’t like the use of sock puppets to support and agree with each other and I think it is a bad look when people do this. I say the same thing about sending merit. If anyone has done this before they should stop. This kind of thing gets noticed and it reflects poorly on those who do this.

I think hacker should consent to theymos looking into these questions and reporting what he finds. There is already evidence of wrongdoing on his part.