Spiker067 - claimed to have imbedded a virus in a link
'What?', you say - well I said that too - It was this:
In the ever popular http://www.lpsg.org/182934-failure-of-socialism.html thread spiker posted a link to a video and he later claimed had an embedded virus in the targeted page:
You didn't watch it. I embedded a virus in it and it hasn't called home yet.
He later posted this:
There was no virus in case there was any doubt by anybody following this thread.
It appears from the lack of red text in the Mod actions thread entry that this is a perma-ban.
I don't really have a personal take on spiker other than my experience of him is that he likes to provoke reaction and my assumption (a dangerous thing, I know) is that that is what he was doing here.
But, motivation aside, what do people think of this ban?
A member posts a harmless link and later, when some people may have accessed it, claims it was malicious. About 2 hours later* the same member states that there was no malicious content on the linked page. The actual time the link was up is immaterial as there was never any threat.
* That's the time frame as best as I can work out from Edit times shown on other posts before and after the quoted posts.
I don't think there is any question that a member doing that is trying to dupe and spook at least part of the LPSG membership - but is it really deserving on a permanent ban? I'm more than happy than the mod team sees fit not to leave this kind of behaviour unpunished but perma-ban? Really? It is really a less acceptable behaviour that the repeated harassment and baiting that people get 7 and 30 day bans for?
I see it as more of a parallel with a one off baiting / harassment type incident and I don't really understand why the different treatment.
Certainly if a member intentionally links to a genuine malicious page I would be in favour of a permanent ban - but that's not what happened.
Discuss.