BartK Thanks a lot for the update, Bart! An unsatisfactory answer, one month later, is better than nothing at all.
It's certainly the answer that I had feared, though.
Prior to the ban, I had no private communication about P|T with anyone, least of all Gombessa. I'm 100% absolutely confident VS has no possible proof that we collaborated, because it never happened. Everything I said about P|T back then was public. I acted all on my own. After that, you all saw P|T take form in real time, pretty much.
The user directory was not visible to non-members and Gombessa didn't post anything before the ban so there were no public/private messages from him on P|T. There was only a brief 2 hour window between when Gombessa joined and the next member did... so his name would not have shown as the "Latest Member" in the stats widget for long at all. I've not spoken about anyone's membership to anyone.
I find it hard to believe some hawk-eyed person at VS spotted that and jumped straight to initiate a no-questions-asked ban then disappeared for a month, but anything's possible, and I'm sorry this happened at all. It was certainly not something I predicted or expected.
Names are hard, perhaps they confused "navindra" with "Gombessa" and banned the wrong person? I imagine the possibility of that is non-negligible. 🤦♂️
Onward, I say.
