

The implication seems like, “we all talk to each other and if you lie to me you lose all of your accounts”.
Well uh, yes, in some cases, that’s exactly the correct interpretation.
A lot of tracker admins DO talk to each other, because this is a fairly small world, and yeah, nobody wants a shithead around so they’ll definitely let other people know who their shitheads are so they can be handled before they become a problem.
Nothing inherently wrong with that, imo.
ReactOS is cloning NT, so the 2000 part of that is correct.
95/98/98se/ME are completely different beasts, even if they happen to share the same GUI.