This is with reference to this thread and this thread.
I was not implicated in either incident, but I feel the need to defend my friends while they are unable to defend themselves considering the woefully disproportionate treatment they have received. Franberry and Sharfghotten were deleted and banned for posting 2 image macros. Rosbaningrad was deleted and banned for posting 1 image macro. Tyrandis was deleted and banned for making a single alleged spam post. These things are not defensible in their own right, but nor do they justify anything more than a temporary ban. In fact, that is exactly the judgment they received in the first thread, taking into account any record they may have had, except in the case of Tyrandis, who was only warned.
All four were then retroactively deleted following a separate case of image spamming in the moderation thread above by two different people: Maldorians and 'ulan', who did not have an NS account. Jenrak has been made aware of this and given by ulan the passwords of all the proxies except one, which has been linked by IP to Maldorians, as proof of his ownership. There is no evidence that Franberry, Sharfghotten, Rosbaningrad or Tyrandis were ever involved in the subsequent spamming that resulted in their deletion, and conclusive proof has been provided that it was in fact third parties. Nor did Franberry, Sharfghotten, Rosbaningrad or Tyrandis post past or otherwise evade their temporary bans.
I understand that, following the spam in moderation, the moderators perceived it as being more important for someone to be seen to be being punished and so deter future spam than to punish the correct person. But all four accounts were large, established nations that had made a significant positive contribution to the RP game on this site; there is not and has never been a scrap of evidence against them for evading bans, or spamming moderation; and now that the moderators have been made aware of their mistake, and of the true culprits, there can be no reason to maintain these disproportionate and unfair deletions.
How can it be called just that Tyrandis, who did not post an image macro, and was not even online at the time moderation was spammed, should lose his nation of several years merely "by association" (as Jenrak put it) with others presumed to committed the crime? How can any of their treatment be called just? While I am aware that NS Moderation is loath to correct its mistakes, I implore you to do so here, with so clear-cut and egregious an error.
Failing that, I implore you to at least acknowledge the truth, if you are truly sincere in your actions:
- that you have deleted two established members for posting two image macros
- that you have deleted one established member for posting one single image macro
- that you have deleted one established member for making one single spam post
and for no other infractions that can be sustained by any evidence you can provide.