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That is a fair point.

Though I guess the underlying issue is people entering incorrect checklists rather than people actively using the checklist that is provided (whether or not they have the cards).

Now if the same person entered the fictitious/incorrect checklist and then claimed to have all the cards that is doubly bad!

No, the underlying factor is that this person changed their avatar to a picture of Hitler, and they havent been banned.  Nothing else matters.

So we are back to Admin's sole responsibility to do something about it.  He has banned some from being able to post in the Forums yet he has never banned a member permanently from the site, be it for an unaccceptable and politically incorrect avatar, a large fraud claim to take advantage of other member's generosity, or a repeat fraudulant trader who kept coming back under very similar ID. He has never removed member's permissions even when they don't follow the clear guidelines of what is required to submit scans or checklists.

The original post was a plea for the offender to stop uploading pictures instead of scanned images. Everything else that people have complained about here is irrelevant.

I think uploading a card image in a set is different than using it as an avatar.  Most would see the avatar as idolizing or promoting the person.

It was the same when I beleive Charles Manson died adn showed up in the In Memorium section.  His cards exist but giving him any honour was not accepted by most.

Okay, so I'm going to take full responsibility for getting this post off-topic from Dan's original point. I can only speak for myself here, so forgive me.

I am far, far from perfect, but I do believe in a sense of community. I have used this analogy before, but if I see something suspicious or strange around my neighborhood, I have two choices: I can lock my doors and hope that nothing bad happens to me, or I can show concern for my neighbors, share information with them, and alert authorities if necessary. In this case, I chose to take the second path. I saw an opportunity here to share what I knew, and I have also let Admin know about this before. Why involve Admin? Anyone else remember about a year ago when someone added the entire site to their collection for the purpose of making a Database or something? Meanwhile, that same day, the Database slowed to obnoxiously slow speeds? Pretty sure those two things went hand-in-hand, and I'd hate to see it happen again, because I don't think that's an easy fix from behind-the-scenes.

In this case, there were questions raised by members in this thread, and I thought an explanation about what I knew and had observed might do some good to at least give an explanation of what was going on. Maybe I have too much time on my hands; I'll let others decide that. But again, if anyone can give me a good reason to add a 2,000,000 card fake collection to the Database, I'm all for hearing it, and maybe that will soften my opinion.

Again, apologies for being the one responsible for driving this train off the tracks. I know I hate when it happens to me, and what should have been dead and killed two pages ago is now well out of hand. Mea culpa.

To correct Bruno, the member changed her avatar to Hitler as a result of reading this forum topic. It was obvious from what she changed her bio to say. It happened late at night, and was gone the next morning.  I doubt many saw it.  She did still have something about Hitler in her bio the next day, but it wasnt the same attack on Dan and the other L8s that was there the night before.

I'm all in favor of cancelling Hitler.  So were millions of Allied troops, many from USA and Canada. I believe the cancel movement was called World War 2.