Say a pirate f1's in a mining field when theres nobody around, then joins on that character again after he has scouted ahead with another character and seen that theres miners there.
Well I posted about this happening to me too. It appears that you can't do anything about and RP it. Yea it's frowned upon big time but there in no rule saying you can't do it. Hopefully someday there will be a time where the admins say "no" to this.