It's been a very busy week behind the scenes. Members might be amazed at just how many signup requests we get from people who want to join to advertise things which are nothing to do with our topics (we know this is their intent based on what they post on other boards). A huge "Thank You" to Chris from Nailsea who takes the brunt of this work.
We've also been busy tidying up two accounts which turned out to both be being operated by the same person, but with two persona, two different ages a generation apart, and two different genders. Setting up multiple accounts (and especially where at least one of them has a profile calculated to mislead) is not acceptable on the Coffee Shop, and the ability to access both accounts has now been deleted. But even when access is deleted in this way, we still have to consider that the poster(s) involved are member(s) in some ways - they cannot simply walk away from ongoing responsibility for what they did while able to post. Copyright breach, and passing on hints on good ways to defraud
TOCs▸ , are examples of the sort of thing we have seen which do not go away with a deletion of posting rights (and tend to remain visible on web archives sites such as
http://waybackmachine.org/ ). And this also means that once you sign up, you are not allowed to sign up for another account here either
even when you consider your first account 'dead'- that would be regarded as seeking a (further, in this case) duplicate access.
