Quote from: Nikolai on January 02, 2015, 07:07:50 AM

Quote from: screwUdriver on January 02, 2015, 05:23:21 AM

Quote from: moreia_alt on January 02, 2015, 05:16:51 AM

No,
I did not give permission to redsn0w nor did he notify me about changing the email settings to public
Besides, the rogue took place AFTER redsn0w took control meaning he should have changed the email in the first place as general escrow procedure
I am not at fault here. Im just grateful he recovered the account

So are you claiming that when you gave the password to redsn0w the email details were hidden/private? If this is the case and redsn0w agrees then this incident would fall entirely on him. If he disputes it then it would fall mostly on him, but still on you somewhat.

FWIW he does have the email set to be public although it is set to an email address that no one can potentially create

What I got from all this is that redsn0w previously held that account as collateral, set the email to public, returned it, did not change the setting back, so it's been public since then, and moriea was unaware. If that's what happened then that's a big failure on redsn0w's part, to change someone's account settings in that way and not return it to it's original settings as the owner left it, and not inform them.

It's also disturbing that redsn0w is taking it upon himself to close the original moriea's loan request thread, along with all the others, under the guise of stopping spam. Closing the fake moriea's threads is one thing, but closing moriea's own threads, and demanding the lender find another way to contact him is unacceptable behavior.

I'm sure redsn0w is a nice guy and all, but he has shown poor judgement, incompetence, and is not fit to act as escrow. He got really lucky that things worked out the way they did. If moriea hadn't gotten banned, if he hadn't gave the account away, if he hadn't been unbanned, he would have been screwed. And the way he is going on blaming others, I'm sure he would have found a way to say it wasn't his fault and not paid up as he should have.

I think one thing that worked to redsn0w's advantage is that he did not have to answer the question of if he would make good on his mistake (although he was asked several times). His response seemed to be that it was an "involuntary" mistake ( Huh

). My interpretation of his response was that he did not plan on repaying the lender for his mistake.

I would say that even the fake threads did have legitimate conversation and would be appropriate to continue discussion. I personally have seen redsn0w spam more then anyone who had posted in any of the threads he locked (there really was not very much spam in any of the ones that I saw). I would almost say it would be appropriate for a mod to unlock the threads and to ban the account until it is time to release it to the proper owner (who depends on if the loan gets repaid), or alternatively changing escrows to someone like BadBear who is less likely to mess up (upon consent of both parties involved, which I would doubt they would have a problem with giving)

I would also agree that he is a very nice person, however the bitcoin world is cut-throat (even more so then the "real" world is) and people will be very willing to take advantage of one's incompetence.