Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on June 15, 2023, 01:16:30 PM

There's no fakkin' way I'm handing out any merits to an alt account of someone who got banned for plagiarism and then tried to evade the ban. I just want to be reasonably sure before I make a decision.

What exactly naim027 did was pushing the boundaries by being a chief manipulator as well as a compulsive liar but the matter did not stop there. The fact his ban was removed and then not banned again (after he started his nonsense again) is a failure by the moderators.

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on June 15, 2023, 02:55:48 PM

But yes, I realize I might be helping some alts to rank up and I've said as much to some members--no one who offers to review posts would know who's an alt of who unless it had already been made public, but I have been in the situation of having given a lot of merits to members who turned out to be malicious alts or plagiarists or what have you, and it sucks.

Got back from my errands, read the rest of this thread, and there's enough evidence for me to conclude that John Abraham is an alt of naim023, and I'm going to tag him after I write this for evading a ban and wasting my time and sMerits. I'm usually suspicious of accounts that consist of a western-sounding first and last name, and I should have heeded that suspicion last time I did a review for him. Ugh.

I remember how bad you felt when it was discovered the number of merits you awarded naim027 and his alt-accounts, especially after he wrote to you asking for you to review his post history.I wonder why he would ask for you to review the post history on the John Abraham account when he was already participating in the highest paying signature campaign (whirlwind), maybe it was a mistake on his part to do that as he was already a Snr Member with 500+ merits and had no immediate need to try to rank up with urgency as it would have happened by itself over time. Strange.