Update: today I played quite a few rounds in Alte Garde A2, I was able to find a load of "friends" over there, and
get the know them better. Amongst this group of fine ol' chaps there was
meric, who finally paid attention (or so I hope) to my overprotective mouth yapping and optimistically he understood about
long, repeated, idling; as well as not breaking our
Grounded Aircraft rule or being a jackass in general. Will he remember?
Will he do it again? No guarantee, he didn't gave me high hopes of curbing his behaviour. It's like he gives up, once he receives the ban, it's done for him: whatever the reason was, doesn't care to make up for it, it was "the admin's decision". Welp I tried to over-explain everything, multiple times, until he felt offended because it was really sounding like I was scolding a child (his words, he used the phrasal
"to tell somebody off for something").
Oh, during the encounter
meric (no, not a Member, I'm just linking flag and profile) let me know that he was banned from our Forums too... the ban reason was that he behaved (guess what) like a child. Personally I recall that there was some nasty stuff flying around through email channels and the shoutbox; it's been a while now so the Forum ban gets lifted, just like the long-term BF2 ban was last year.