At the risk of being redundant, I am going to repeat here what I have said more than once: Most, if not all, of the dings were unsigned -- and in the beginning even the blings were.

Every ding I sent out was unsigned. Every ding I received (including one from an Omni mod) was unsigned. (I also received an unsigned grey box from a second Omni mod.) As long as that was the accepted practice -- and assuming that no flaming messages were attached -- there was nothing wrong with it. It was very much like the secret ballot. You voted on whether or not you liked a posting.

It is highly unfair to condemn one person for what was the general practice.

If you want to condemn anything (in addition to signing fake names) condemn the obviously organized gang bangs. Sean was the recipient of one of them. I was another (6 dings on April 3,4, and 5 -- one of them for advising that the new software works faster during non-peak hours).

I am certain that Sean and I were not the only recipients. And if you don't want to condemn them for actually doing the gang bangs, at least condemn them for doing it so obviously. That was plain amateurish!