Sean is pronounced the same as Shawn - I can confirm. It's Irish I believe. A bit like Guiness but easier to spell.
Your brother's account was not banned for "no reason at all", but if you really want to go there, okay... Looking at the most recent, infractions, they all look normal to me. 1. Posting a one-liner of "Nice. Good price aswell" in someone's sale thread (where you have no interest in what they are selling) certainly looks like the user is running up their post count. 2. Posting a one-liner of "congrats mate" in someone's AdSense thread (again, no relevance to the topic), again... looks like padding post count to me. 3. Posting a one-liner of "I can do it for a quarter of the price everyone. And the time is the same" in someone else's offering of services looks like thread hijacking to me. The rest is just more of the same... Your brother was receiving infractions from 5 different mods since the 3rd day after he signed up (not a bunch at once)... kind of throws the giant conspiracy theory out the window.
Oops! Looks like I just banned you for a duplicate account too. That's a much longer ban then the month you had before. Whoops!
Wow! This is one rare instance where Shawn gave a long reply. Anyway, DP's rules are very simple. I don't really get it why a lot of new members are having troubles in following it. --Joe
Though I am one of the affected party, where I have lost some money. But I am not sorry for Chum, rather I am happy that we are making DP a clean place. Such proactive measures for sure will ensure that DP remains a neat and clean place. Kudos to all Mods! BTW: Next time onwards, before buying any Avatar/sig I am going to ask for screenshot of Infarction score book