The Rayaan / Jacob(smooth) Situation

[Waratah]

I call bullshit.

1st Post: Opening post to a thread. No one can add to a discussion from a first post.

2nd Post: Reply to Tiberius. Added to discussion. I know he did copy/paste in part with this post, but it was relevant and included a link to the copy/paste.

3rd post: Another opening post to a thread.

Let me clear up your confusion, as I am the mod who moderated two of his posts and who banned him.

His first post was pushing a book, and contained a link to where the book could be purchased. This *can be enough to justify a ban*.

His third post was a duplicate of the first, clearly a second violation of our spam/advertising policy, and *this alone* is enough to get someone instabanned (two identical violations of the same rule in 3 posts).

The outside posts only confirmed what we already knew, and in any case a ban was justified with or without it.

Thanks for clearing some of that up.

Would you agree that the third post was the first spam violation since it was the first duplication?

So the user was banned due to the second advertisement?

Would you agree that there was no need to investigate the users outside activities since the users outside activities were irrelevant?