I will delete my post in the thread this was originally posted in and repost here since my original post was techincally off topic. My post was originally in
this thread, and is quoted below:
The only reason you would need to know who deleted something is to pester them about it, which would be a pointless annoyance that might even prevent moderators from doing a good job. Admins are the only ones who can restore deleted posts and the only ones who can properly deal with inaccurate mod actions: post in Meta and we'll look into it.
It is too bad the trust system is not setup this way. If it was then more people on DefaultTrust would have the balls to send negative trust to scammers. Just look at the likes of Quickseller (who is now removed), Tomatocage, and Vod (who has now left the forum mostly); there are several threads complaining about the negative trust they leave, even though the trust is reasonably appropiate. I do not doubt that they all receive a lot of harassing PMs regarding their sent negative trust.
Then we have the people that troll people who leave negative trust against scammers. Look at
evershawn who was trolling Vod for months after receiving negative trust from him. Look at
tspacepilot who is still trolling Quickseller to the point of getting him removed; it also appears that he was able to bully him into removing the negative rating, yet continues to troll him.
I think that our community does not have enough people on DefaultTrust that are active in marking scammers. I can say that very few (if any) scammers were marked with the account that I wanted to sell when I created this account, primarily to keep away the trolling that is associated with such marking.
I think that many people on DefaultTrust wish to maintain a very positive image of themselves to others so they do not tag scammers when they find them. Some people are so afraid of getting trolled that they quickly remove any negative ratings they leave scammers when their inbox gets spammed with enough PM's. Even Tomatocage was
spammed with 10+ PM's in his inbox about the above scammer and downgraded his negative rating to a neutral despite solid evidence, a few people even said that the evidence was solid who are on DefaultTrust.