right after reading this ToP's barge (that's never been used for trading) got bastilled , and I still didn't get a proper conversation with an admin about it.
no coincidence bro.
The thread in question probably caught the eye of one or two Admins, who then decided it might be a good idea to see just how many Barges out there had the correct ID.
There can't be that many people on the server with Barges, as I've been told by someone who knows, that most people who buy them tend to realize that they aren't as good as people say they are and sell them asap, usually inside a week.
At a guess, most people who have a Barge, also have the correct ID for it.