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If you keep running these bots we will ban your main account as well. Please stop now.

I'm asking this with probably half curiosity and half rhetorical intent but....why even give a warning?

They've been a member for 16 years, better for them to change their ways than be lost forever?

If you stepped over a line you didn't know.. wouldn't you prefer a kind reminder rather than a sudden loss of access?