Recently we had a user who get into a heated discussion and apparently didn’t value anyone’s opinion other than his own, very true to his username actually. Discussion there gets a little heated which causes the user to lose his temper. Unfortunately beside the warnings given by from other users, asking him to cool down a bit, he finds that the best option is to start insulting and cursing other members…

From this point, staff gets involved – 5 day forum ban was to be expected, hopefully to get him to cool down a bit and realise the error of his ways. This however, does not help the situation as the user is now harassing other members through private messages on the tracker… That happens to be the last straw, and the user is now fully banned from BakaBT.

The story would have ended there, however, the ban triggers our system to disable a second account, one of a user who was participating in the argument as well… Plot thickens… Continue reading →