Don't any of you have IRL friends who join forums or teach neighbors or friends about forums?
I do have several very good IRL friends who I know for more than 30 years and who are members of this forum (they are those who suggested me to come here in the first place) but not even once it cross my mind to sit at their computer when I was at their place and write forum posts and vice versa.
Thing is, basically all those who were caught abusing forum rules via alt accounts claim that those are their friends or family members, and while that may sometime be the case, no one will believe them anymore as this excuse has been used so much.
I have admitted wrongdoing and ownership of my alt account. Maybe I don't deserve to be forgiven but all the connections I had in 2017/2018. That's when I didn't know anything and I was just a bounty hunter. Beautiful times to remember as well as bad times. I know there are no second chances here
I once taught another college friend to join the forum and even bought him a new laptop at the end of 2017, but when he registered, the merit system came and he failed to increase his account ranking.