The Rayaan / Jacob(smooth) Situation

[Rayaan]

So how to you know it is their information when you do not control other websites.

Whether we know or not (and how sure we are about that) depends on things like the username matches, profile information matches, and the similarity of the contents that they posted in other forums/websites, amongst other things that we may across. We don't need to be able to control those other websites in order to be able to make those connections.

Please point out the rule about the actions in other forums. I am confused.

There is no rule about actions in other forums, but there is a rule about copy-pasting chunks of information from other websites as I quoted below:

Pasting From Other Web Sites
This is a common forum problem and can be quite annoying for other members. By all means copy and paste the odd piece of text or small paragraph if it adds weight to your post, but for anything larger, please provide a link to the material instead by using the url tag:

http://atheistforums.org/rules.php

This post to me is very confusing. You start off by stating there has been a situation where someone was banned for their activities outside the forum.

I didn't say he was banned because of his activities outside the forum only; we've never done such a thing. To clarify my point once again, he was banned because of his activities *here* AND in the other forums, for copy and pasting large chunks of text, which is against the rules of this forum. If he did that in other forums but not in this forum, then we wouldn't have had a reason to punish him since he didn't break any rules here.

From what I understand, the poster reposted the same text in another thread(unsure because post was redacted) and that was the reason for his banning.

Yes, he reposted the same text in another thread, which is known as copy-pasting. But he was banned for doing that many more times, not just for that one time alone. We didn't ban him based on that single violation as you (wrongly) understood. He copy-pasted things from different forums multiple times, which makes him a spammer, and that is the reason we banned him.

See this post in the Staff Log, which reports the actual reason for his banning.