Person of interest thread

PM exchange with Marius, in a vain attempt to talk his attitude around...

Pete said:
That may well be your opinion based on your personal experiences, but your words in the thread implied the Indian sub-continent as a whole.

You're doubtless aware that there are a large amount of Windows Phone users who are from that region, and the number of Indian users here on WindowsCentral is a reflection of that proportionate number of users. You're in danger of doing a great job of alienating that sub-set of users (and all others who have a firm respect for Indian's work ethic).

There is already a growing raft of negativity here on the forums, and adding more reasons to be bitter at Microsoft, and each other isn't contributing anything positive to the community.

You have some good and fair points, but not much can happen immediately. Microsoft certainly isn't reading the forums here and has the capability of changing their strategy in a small amount of time. All we can do at this point is to throw feedback about the products and hope for the best. If things don't work out the way we like, there are other platforms....
mariusmuntean said:
Sorry about that, I get your point but I have spoken the truth. For 5 years I've been working at a MNC with colleagues from India office and I know very well how good they are in IT. Being a QA manager I have seen hundreds of their work and it was by far the worst. And the lack of quality at MS has gotten worse since Satya came...
 
Could tangledW:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/members/tangledw.htm
...and Josh Harman:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/members/josh-harman.htm
...be one and the same?

User tangledW suffered a ban on 12/16/2015.
Josh Harman resurfaced as an active member 2 days later on 12/18/2015.

I see that tangledW joined on 08/11/2014 and Harman joined on 04/23/2013.
What drew my attention was that Josh Harman is using an avatar that tangledW was using.
I thought the posting styles were similar and both accounts have or are steadily building infraction points.

If one of the network mods could look this over I'd like to know if there is anything to validate my suspicions about these accounts.
 
Could tangledW:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/members/tangledw.htm
...and Josh Harman:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/members/josh-harman.htm
...be one and the same?

User tangledW suffered a ban on 12/16/2015.
Josh Harman resurfaced as an active member 2 days later on 12/18/2015.

I see that tangledW joined on 08/11/2014 and Harman joined on 04/23/2013.
What drew my attention was that Josh Harman is using an avatar that tangledW was using.
I thought the posting styles were similar and both accounts have or are steadily building infraction points.

If one of the network mods could look this over I'd like to know if there is anything to validate my suspicions about these accounts.
Good catch. Take a look at the email addresses registered to the users then give him a suitable reward for ban evasion. Also take a look at "tanglewoodDEV" with one IP match and a suspicious jh... email. I suggest also a name search in the AE forum
 
Thanks you two.
Much appreciated.
Harmans's avatar was what tagged him.

Edit:
Should tangledW be re-banned permanently also?
That account has expiring trolling infractions on it.
 
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Site policy is for the mod leader and eic to decide. I would be tempted to restart his ban to restore thevdays evaded. Or stick him with a custom infraction carrying enough new points to leave him one indiscretion away from another ban after the pending ones fall off. He won't last long, think he also had a troublesome history at CB.
 
Site policy is for the mod leader and eic to decide. I would be tempted to restart his ban to restore thevdays evaded. Or stick him with a custom infraction carrying enough new points to leave him one indiscretion away from another ban after the pending ones fall off. He won't last long, think he also had a troublesome history at CB.
This will be addressed. I contacted Stephen via Skype.
 
I've banned the Josh Harman account, and I've put tangledw on our list of moderated members. He's currently at a point where any further infractions will result in a permanent ban. I've PM'd him and made him aware that we are keeping an eye on him very closely and any violation of the community rules will result in a permanent ban.

It may be just a matter of time, but we'll see.