Quote from Magna:
Not sure what you mean by that. If you mean it's an alternate alias that's not true. There is absolutely no overlap between any logon I.P. address of those two members. If you mean he's a friend, or posts at marketsurfer's behest, etc. then I have no way of knowing and it's not against the rules anyway.
Marketsurfer has been around ET a long time and over that duration he was banned a couple of times years ago. During those bans he registered a number of alternate aliases which, when discovered, were always removed immediately.
Ol' Yella is marketsurfer. I can convey the precise tell, which I've seen for every single one of his sockpuppets over the years and is not context dependent. It's precise and no one else deploys it. I will not give it away publicly, or else he will adjust.
I somehow doubt he is sophisticated enough to hide his habits anyway, but that's irrelevant. Marketsurfer will continue to post here, regardless of ET's rules. Frankly, I'm okay with that -- I enjoy his silly nonsense, and I enjoy people bitching at him. But I am calling out how you use your delegated powers to control how people respond to him.
Relatedly, I just tried to send R.R. a PM about Ol' Yella and discovered it's no longer possible. I suspect you banned him under ET conduct rule #5. (And as you can see from my IP, I'm not him). Oddly enough, marketsurfer was never banned under ET conduct rule #5, despite all of us seeing him violate it over and over and over again -- he's here to this day (with at least one operating sockpuppet).
I did PM a few others in this thread about this thread and Ol' Yella though, just in case.
Even if you don't believe that Ol' Yella is marketsurfer, the fact that you might have banned this one guy and supported marketsurfer, when both have had multiple aliases, is an issue of concern.
