I think a lot of people were stupid way back on their Gaia days
I was one of them, though somehow I wasn't ever ban-worthy stupid
Didn't get warnings until the ownership change...the first being for the gif in my sig that had been there for years. File was too big because they hadn't gotten their heads around people don't really have dial-up anymore. Someone got banned for "botting" because they had a good internet connection, too, and was fast enough their bot alarm went off
the gif, if you're curious
Yeah, gaia needed to update some things and the ownership change to moneymoneymoney meant they never got updated