arthwollipot wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:00 pmI understand your cynicism, but I think Icerat is doing a good thing right now.
My jury remains out.
I see a bloke who's just said that he lost his business and income due to long covid illness. At the same time, a convenient idiot starts a thread that results in people saying they'd put money towards the forum to help it thrive.
If it hadn't been me started that thread I'd be calling stooge - the timing was impeccable and he now has a tidy little sum to go on with. And as for changing to XYZ 3.13, nobody will know if that even happens. The actual changes made to date have been emptying a few caches and adding https, which as I pointed out, is free.
arthwollipot wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:46 pm
There has indeed been a discussion about amnesty for banned posters. Alas, the consensus has gone against the idea, once again.
I was going to answer that next.
Stanky, a sockpuppet is your only chance, but given your posting style I suspect you'll be caught in short order.
arthwollipot wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:52 pm
Back when I was a mod, I was advised that the admin team had methods of detecting socks other than a simple IP address match. I wouldn't recommend it.
What's the worst that could happen? He gets banned again - no loss at all.