Scotty T
Walks the walk
Soooooo That is Dozer's take and if you have actually been here for as long as you say you pretty much should know by now what that means when our overlord speaks.
I made a handful of posts in the early 2000's mostly promoting the races and website I was running, with permission of the overlords at the time. I was only recently made aware that there is "its staff member" and that be Dozer
Imagine you're selling some bike parts to a dude on Rotorburn, you know him on face value via this forum so you send the bits before he pays for it. That account then gets removed, he's on the site under another alias and continues to assume it's okay to stitch people up by posting as another user. You never get paid because the user details are gone and you blame the Rotorburn admin team because you have no other avenue to pursue.
Multiple accounts mean multiple problems.
And as for Hambo being banned, the fucking guy asked to be removed and bullshitted me, you and everyone else on here with several accounts. Der.
Sure, hypotheticals around what could happen are interesting, but that didn't happen and was not the intention of Hambo's dumb moves. My personal take on the OP is that nobody should ever have their account or posts deleted, if they want to remove their shit that is down to them.
You're right, the rules could be listed.
It can't be too hard to unlock the READ FIRST thread and add them there.
As a related aside on @Dozer mentioning transactions between members, there was also some discussion about the amount of personal information contained within PM's. I'm going to visit my PM's and delete all personal information, this would be a good idea for everyone to do. Interestingly after this was rasied this on Friday, we had the worst ever inernet vulnerability come out over the weekend. Luckily RB is not affected.