If he had PM'd us, at least we would have been able to ascertain the validity of his claim, if he had, and we had seen that his avatar off HCOR was being plagiarised, we could have changed 01_250s to correct the situation.
So in answer to your question 'what could we have done?' We could have fixed it. We're admins, being able to right such situations is one of our fantabulous, magical admin powers you see.
You think I wanted him to PM us so we could say "Bahaha, cop that foo! Someone stole your avatar!"? Had he taken the appropriate course of action, his avatar could have been returned, he wouldn't have been banned and this whole stupid discussion wouldn't have had to take place.
The "theft" of his avatar didn't need to be discussed in the open forum and he certainly didn't need to continue posting new threads after he had been told how to resolve his problem.
So, to recap
1) He was wrong
2) We were right.
So in answer to your question 'what could we have done?' We could have fixed it. We're admins, being able to right such situations is one of our fantabulous, magical admin powers you see.
You think I wanted him to PM us so we could say "Bahaha, cop that foo! Someone stole your avatar!"? Had he taken the appropriate course of action, his avatar could have been returned, he wouldn't have been banned and this whole stupid discussion wouldn't have had to take place.
The "theft" of his avatar didn't need to be discussed in the open forum and he certainly didn't need to continue posting new threads after he had been told how to resolve his problem.
So, to recap
1) He was wrong
2) We were right.