Quote from: bad_char5 on September 24, 2015, 12:46:10 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on September 24, 2015, 06:53:15 AM

Regarding themos's dox: I do think that theymos does have the right to protect his privacy. I don't see any major issue with theymos using some kind of automation/scrypt to prevent his personal information from being posted etc., etc.

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The issue is not theymos' banning people for attempting to post his dox, but rather theymos' duplicity, and lying by the staff.

Let's assume that theymos is being honest when claiming that users are not banned for posting his dox, but rather for how and why those dox are posted -- with intent to troll.

I am going to say with a good amount of certainty that the line about 'posting someone's dox for no reason other then to annoy them is trolling' is BS. As I have mentioned previously, I think that theymos 100% has the right to want to protect his privacy. I also think that users should be given warnings prior to receiving a long term ban for posting theymos's dox, and that a rule that posting theymos's dox is not allowed should be publicized (if this is not a rule, then one should be made and it should be publicized).

As I said previously, it is not realistic that the owner/controller of a site will allow damaging information about him to remain posted on his site, especially that of a dox. I would confidently say that if someone were to claim that if there was a claim that zuckerberg scammed someone on Facebook and such claim was posted on Facebook in 2004, then such claim would probably be removed, regardless of it's merits. I do not see why bitcointalk (or any other website for that matter) would be any different.

If theymos really did scam you (or someone else), or has exhibited other untrustworthy behavior, then such claims should be posted in (a) place(s) where theymos does not exert control over, and if you can back up such allegations with credible facts and evidence then such allegations will propagate, otherwise they will be ignored.

If you are to conduct business on bitcointalk, then you should (among many other things) conduct an investigation as to if theymos (the controllers of bitcointalk - for all intensive purposes) is trustworthy enough that he will not scam you (either via a MITM attack or otherwise). I can say that it would be my opinion that theymos is not going to attempt to scam you while you are conducting business on bitcointalk (although other scammers will most likely attempt to scam you). I can also say that I have also conducted multiple very large trades without incident (and if theymos was going to scam via a MITM attack then such trades would not have been completed without incident).

As I mentioned above, I think the handing out of bans for posting theymos's dox should be extremely liberal because there are several reasons that are not malicious why someone may post themos's dox, and that person may very well be able to make good conurbations to the community.