Doesn't matter if you're giving away bearshit, you can't give away things even if they worthless.
The reason is because it spams up the forum with useless posts of people claiming said giveaways. You should have set up a faucet website off forum that gave away testcoins.
You are right. He has violated the policy.
And whoever banned him did a very prompt action. Great police work.
Now it may be a good idea to do some court work and decide if the ban should be removed.
Reasons:
1. No foul intentions (testing only).
(He has violated the policy, but his deed was not what the policy was designed to fight with.
In other words - this policy is enforced with certain goal in mind.
And the goal is not to keep coin developers from developing and users from testing)
2. The amount of users that stand for developer unbanning.
I am sure a sound judgement will be made and the proper action will be taken.
It's honorable to keep a stand and get behind principles.
It's more honorable though to admit not-so-good decision and take a better one.
Maybe an example will help mods change their mind:
If a guy is speeding with his wife in labor and is being pulled over
do you think the cop should:
1. Hold him for 30mins to check his driving record on cop's car computer, asking to take
a sobriety test and writing him a ticket while the guy's wife is giving a birth on the back seat
or
2. Escort him to the closest hospital and than giving him a ticket (optional)