by sonicsteve on Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:49 am
I would suggest they change his password for a few days, but let AOG have it for his team games only.
Once all the games have washed through, put in a points reset to 1000 points so the first few players he takes on don't get shafted by a low-points cook.
This would actually be pretty lenient when some would like him banned. On the face of it, it looks like his intention was to make a big noise to annoy the mods (there was no effort to break the record and I don't buy the BS about car crashes or the cat eating his laptop or whatever it was) as per the events below:
Thursday night / Friday - joins 1000 games; takes a few turns in games where he has a good drop but gets nowhere near through his backlog.
Saturday - misses the vast majority of games, but still manages to take 2nd turns in a few games and manages to join another 300 as well as posting in the forums.
Sunday and Monday - takes no turns until he is a cook with a 30 score
Monday night - starts taking turns in (all?) games again
At the moment there seem to be a handful of people who have stated on his wall or in threads that they have taken some turns 'to help out', but no-one is declaring in game chat. There is some doubt that all this lies at herkman's door as some of his forum activity could have been sitters.
We're at a stage where no individual opponent will pick up significant points from the guy, but counterwise some could lose a chunk where he (or somebody) was taking turns in selective games on days 1 and 2 and is back taking turns now.
Removing his access until he has a clean slate would just allow the issues to wash out without aggrieving anyone further. After a reset its up to him if he wants to play with some dignity in future.
