He may have written the reddit article? He doesn't remember whether he did or not?
I haven't heard about this particular case, but I am quite sure that we had similar incidents like that in the past. A user copying his own posts from social media or a personal blog to Bitcointalk. It should be easy to prove whether the original content is his or not. He could simply edit it by adding his Bitcointalk profile link to the bottom of the post, for example.
It sounds like a case of clumsiness and something that doesn't need to happen. But honestly not a reason I would ban someone. It definitely would be if he couldn't prove he owned that Reddit account though.
I agree with you completely. But, firstly, he did not appeal the revision of the ban. And secondly, we do not see the link to the author, which means that we have the right to think that this is the most common copying.
The Recent history of the
RainbowKun farm, and dozens of banned accounts that copied messages from Reddit, taught me not to trust such posters.
Another example, yesterday's account ban.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.58799869Exactly the same story, copying from Reddit.
Maybe such cases of bans will teach users not to disdain and add links to their first posts on the network?