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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 03 February 2016 09:07:16AM 1 point [-]

Should I feel bad about this? Granted, neither of those accounts is linked to a meatspace identity, but...

Comment author: philh 03 February 2016 11:33:12AM 2 points [-]

No. It would have been bad if you'd been wrong. But you had reason to be confident, and you were right.

Possibly it would have been better to message Nancy privately. But she's busy, and in the time between "Eugine shows up" and "Eugine gets banned", I prefer for the rest of us to know he's here.

Even if Eugine was tied to a meatspace identity, he's not allowed to be here. He's still not allowed to be here if he doesn't admit that it's him.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 06 February 2016 12:05:27PM 0 points [-]

Possibly it would have been better to message Nancy privately.

Thanks. Another commenter suggested the same in a PM. I'm going to do that the next time I spot a possible new Eugine Nier account.