Yeah, but he's still a scammer, he's threatened G4L, he's openly admitted that he's - knowingly - spamming (and ban evading existing bans, for months. Mods are probably sick to death of him.) and will continue to do so with the help of, if I recall correctly, at least 20 others.
Not to mention he's currently using
multiple accounts, so that doesn't really help that much regarding the whole notion of "just watching the one account".
This is a horrible comparison, but would you just release a convicted murderer simply because he's killed someone in prison (read: continuing to scam people), has managed to escape a few times (read: evades bans constantly), and seems to be more trouble than he's worth (read: being an idiot, causing drama, doing his thing)?
I would hope not (man that was a terrible comparison and I hate myself for it, but... really, logic).
Hell, Grobar isn't even the original account he's had banned.
This, I believe, was SRB. I don't recall why that account was banned, but it's sure to be interesting.
Really, he's banned for very good reason, and should stay that way.
On the other hand, I agree - what does need to change, is others being dicks (I'm looking at you ReesesPieces & nickos3!) and consistently starting the Grobar accusations (though 99% of the time they're right; the guy sticks out like a sore thumb).
So much less hassle to just report him and let the mods do what they need to do.
In regards to the random turk that says he was banned, this is surprising, but so far he's been the only one
allegedly affected by this.
He did, however, have 2+ advert threads, and was bumping at least 2 of them, so that doesn't exactly win you any points either... nor does, as he stated himself - in a thread now moved to mod-land -
buying the server from Grobar in the first place. Oh, snap.
So, really, the only one "affected" by this has been someone who's actually already affiliated with him who could very well have been banned for a legitimate reason.
I think I can speak for most owners here when I say Grobar's an idiot and of no concern to them. Nobody's being "hurt" by anything. People are still going to advertise their servers.
The only thing hurting this forum, and preventing people from advertising, is the DDoS'ing that's routinely keeping the forums down.
So:
Random idiot gets banned for scamming, random idiot evades bans and continues acting like a complete idiot, another idiot comes along and buys a server off the scammer, claims he has nothing to do with the scammer anymore, allegedly gets banned anyway.
Meh. There's no drama here.
Not remotely worth breaking out the popcorn for.
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