Quote from: stingers on July 12, 2015, 11:50:56 AM

Claiming an account to be sold/hacked based on the fact that it hasn't been used since long is rubbish. We've seen many moderators going offline for a couple of months. Does that mean that their account has been sold?

I didn't claim that, I said it was possible it was bought, and his activity or lack thereof was only an additional point to my main issue but it was still relevant to why he isn't trusted to be an escrow. And Staff who are inactive for quite some time are usually removed as a couple have been recently, but you shouldn't trust them or anyone else if they pop back up after x amount of time and create a thread saying "give me your money I'm trustworthy".

Quote from: stingers on July 12, 2015, 11:50:56 AM

Also, what's the problem in offering escrow? The person might be known to the parties in real world and they both might trust him or there can be other cases. He just offered it, he didn't force anyone to use him as an escrow.
I believe its too harsh for hilariousandco to give him a neg trust.

The problem is he's not trusted to do so. Scammers or newbies looking for a loan don't usually force people to give them their money either but if you send them money you're likely never going to see it again. Being a no-name newb or Jnr member with no reputation or reason to trust them defeats the purpose of escrow and offering to hold on to people's money when you have no good reason to makes them untrustworthy in my opinion. Still, if people want to use the guy as an escrow then they still can but they should take my feedback into consideration. I'm also not opposed to changing it to neutral at some point either but I think my feedback is entirely appropriate. Do you think neutral would be more apt? I left a neutral on the user brendanjhwu who did a similar thing thing as op, only he ran off with a couple of users money shortly after and that's what will likely happen if people don't leave appropriate feedback in these sorts of situations.

Quote from: stingers on July 12, 2015, 12:00:10 PM

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Also, what's the problem in offering escrow? The person might be known to the parties in real world and they both might trust him or there can be other cases.

That's how things work here is no answer to a question. Things aren't supposed to work like this.

How should they work? Wait till someone uses him as an escrow then when he runs off with their money we can leave him negative feedback and proclaim "I knew it"? Best remove all feedback on ponzi operators and newbie requesting loans because until they run off with your money they've done nothing wrong, right?

Quote from: stingers on July 12, 2015, 12:00:10 PM

But shouldn't a guy in DT2 be more careful and more levelheaded and think more before throwing out a negative trust?
More cases like this are just going to hamper the peace of the forum and will be a huge discouragement to the people who actually want to "contribute".

I am levelheaded and I did think and as I stated above my reluctance to leave very justifiable negative has lead to several people being scammed recently. Scammers also hamper the 'peace of the forum' and discourage users from using it but that's why the trust system is there to help warn others and cut down on this behavior. If it becomes commonplace where we start accepting any old user to escrow there is going to be far more scams happening and what's going to happen when people lose faith in escrows and refuse to use them because they can't be trusted anymore? People will then try wrangle out of using escrow based on that then just scam themselves when the other person decides to trust them. The bottom line is if you're not already trusted to hold on to people's money then you shouldn't be offering escrow and they shouldn't be accepted here for good reason. Once people know you enough that people start asking you to help them out on deals then that's a good indication that your services might be needed but not before and most certainly not by some random account who nobody has even heard of and that to me is the very definition of untrustworthy behavior and is why negative feedback is entirely justified.