In
this post TF claimed that tspacepilot fraudulently withdrew .5
BTC from coinchat. As much as I dislike taking TF's word for anything, that was the only amount ever presented and tspacepilot never disputed the amount he stole (note: the conclusion that tspacepilot stole money from coinchat was based solely on statements made by tspacepilot and my understanding of the rules of coinchat, and the words of TF were relied upon 0%).
I had suggested to tspacepilot that he could return the money he stole from coinchat however he was not interested in discussing this but rather claimed that he never did anything wrong. (A very good explanation as to why it is appropriate to conclude that tspacepilot stole from coinchat is
here.
As I remember it, coinchat was a site that paid you coins in exchange for posting chat. That's clearly a silly idea and will only lead to people posting nonsense to earn money. The incentives are all wrong and encourage just what you don't want on a chat site. It's much the same as companies running "signature campaigns" which pay forum users for each post they make. You end up with thousands of garbage posts and the quality of the forum drops as a result. In other words what you reward is what you get. TF was paying for chat, so he got it. And of course people are going to automate that if they can.
I don't think writing a bot to take advantage of a poorly thought out incentive scheme is "fraud" or "dishonest" and certainly doesn't require punishment years later. What needed fixing was the incentive scheme. Stop paying people to post crap and they will stop posting crap.
Regarding tspacepilot's ban: he was (most likely) banned for posting many off topic posts, derailing threads, and creating multiple/duplicate threads when the conversation of the first thread didn't go his way (he would lock threads when others did not agree with him), and overall trolling. He has been doing this for months and I would say that if this is his first ban for this behavior and if he was only banned for 5 days then he has gotten off very easy.
I don't spend enough time here to have noticed any of that (other than a bizarre tendency to defend DaDice, but that's probably a result of them paying him for his signature). Do you have URLs for offtopic posts?
Edit: tsp messaged me on Just-Dice as follows. If what he says is true it certainly doesn't sound like he is deserving of any kind of negative trust rating:
12:04:46 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> anyway, what he says is factually false, i did dispute the 0.5 and fwiw, that was one of the main sticking
points in trying to resolve what happened
12:05:07 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> TF first said I owed him 1.5BTC, at the time, I only had like 0.4 or 0.5 to my name. so that was outlandish
12:05:26 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> then he changed it to 0.5, then he changed it o 0.54, i kept asking him where he was getting these numbers, but
he wouldn't tell me.
12:05:55 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> i don't know if you remember anything about coinchat, but it was a site where people chatting got rewards of
tips at random moments.
12:06:08 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> there were many bots running services there for gambling and whatnot
12:06:31 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> i was trying to learn about node and asynchronous programming and i started making a bot intended to look things
up in the wikipedia
12:06:56 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> apparantely, at one moment, the bot was looping or something and it looked like an abuse.
12:07:20 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> TF banned me but because he wouldn't discuss with me about what happened from his end, how much the bot might
have made (i estimate on the order ofa few ksat)
12:07:32 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> i was never able to make it straight with him and that was basically that.
12:08:14 (1157905) → (1) <@dooglus> i never had any other problems with anyone for the next 3 years (until QS came along) and did his thing where he
was trying to dig up dirt with me in a thinly veiled attack using his at-the-time unrevealed alt ACCTSeller.