Wow. Another bunch of skeletons in the closet. @eddie13 asked a lot of good questions and that is what the community should be discussing.
Do you guys hope he stops posting on all of his accounts and goes away forever, or do you think he is still a somewhat valuable member of the community even though he gamed the system to make more coin?
Against hop hopen, I hope he comes back and uses this anonymity to come clean with the story of how he feels about doing this and shares his thought process about the "ethics" of it all.
Would an admission and apology from him help any?
Where do you think he really stands now?
I don't think an apology means anything. Down the apology route, he can probably as easily exploit the anonymity and attempt a convincing backstory about the pooling of funds.
Also wonder if mods knew this by IP the entire time and kept their mouths shut..
This is important to know. It'll be great if the mods can clarify this.. Whether they actually scrutinize IP logs for wrongdoing?? The least the mods can do is look at the IP logs of those accounts and see for themselves whether it was possible to identify them? This would probably bring some form of closure to those who feel cheated that the most aspirational Sig campaign on the forum was exploited for so long.
Any community needs to set standards as to what is called wrongdoing; what is an exploit and what is ethically wrong. The crypto community has a way to equivocate on a lot of issues concerning ethics as and when it serves them right. All the righteous rage that plenty of newbies and the not-so-articulate here suffer means little to nothing when this sort of a thing happens right under our collective noses.
@nutildah of course deserves all the kudos and merits (and a CM seat) for seeing the pattern.