[Sei]

Sometimes, if they were a troll, they eventually took it well and laughed it off. Most good trolls know when a joke has gone too far and bow out; it's the bad trolls that keep pushing when they know it's hopeless. The invested users and their 'parents', however, were far more likely to be the ones that had to speak to the highest authority (and believe me, I can understand feeling like you lost an investment - a part of you, and I sympathize with anyone who has lost their account, but the ToS is the ToS and that's what controls what we do).

As mods, we were more likely to know what was going on with accounts than the admins were, because we were the ones who did the investigating. They, for some reason, thought the admins would quickly review all the evidence and decide the opposite of what we did. It was weird. I've told people for years: mods log EVERYTHING - screenshots, quoted conversations, links to 'deleted' threads and posts - we are the police of the forum. If we couldn't get enough evidence to PROVE it, you wouldn't have received any penalty.