The main question is what a criminal is and who is considered a criminal in this forum.
That's because you're attempting to muddy the issue with this hyperbole. Breaking forum rules is not a "crime" and a ban is not a "prison sentence". If a person breaks the rules a lot (e.g. by repeatedly spamming) or in a particularly egregious way (e.g. by copy-pasting or by posting malware) and gets banned they can still go and do that shit elsewhere, in places that allow spamming, plagiarism, malware, etc.
Scams are not moderated and while that's counter-intuitive to many, it allows moderators to be more impartial and the community to label scams via the trust system.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.51107344
This plagiarism is not even removed from the forum
If banned members are such villains, what prevents them from changing the ip address in the VPN and spread the harm from the new account? These people do not care about the forum and its rules.
But if we talk about the forum and about the actions according to the forum rules, the essence of my appeal is to review the cases of those people whose violations were rare and with their posts they did not harm anyone + they repented and asked for forgiveness
These are 2 completely different situations.
A scammer doesn’t care about his account and the quality of posts, only profit is important to him. And the ban of his account is only a financial loss.
For an ordinary user, who by stupidity (forgetfulness .. and etc.) made a mistake, this is not a financial loss.
I do not write much and read a lot, but in recent years I have seen a complete degradation and increase in the number of frauds in the largest local forum thread - the Russian one. But the number of useful people is constantly decreasing.
Here is the second paradox
