However even by those "extremely liberal" standards, and even assuming that some other newbie user had done the same thing - it doesn't appear that a neg trust would have been posted. There was no PSA and there was no actual support for the ponzi, quite the contrary.
Someone posting a PSA saying that others in the community should not do or post something does not make whatever the subject of the PSA a scam. There is nothing that would stop someone from writing a PSA that says that anyone who thinks the sky is blue, and if such a (ridiculous) PSA was posted, anyone who posts they think the sky is blue would not automatically be a scammer. If you are caught driving 65 MPH on a highway in which the speed limit is only 55 MPH, you cannot present a defense on the basis that you
thought the speed limit was 65 MPH (if you do, it would be ignored by the judge/court). Writing a PSA might be helpful to educate people who might otherwise not know they are about to "break the law", however it is not necessary to post such a PSA prior to someone being guilty of a crime.
Right, if only there was a traffic law that said something like "you shall obey the posted speed limit"... in any case, completely irrelevant. I was simply responding regarding the "extremely liberal" neg trust ratings and checking if dooglus' participation in that thread would have passed as support for the ponzi same way as aforementioned ratings.
Of course you don't
need a PSA or any kind of other formal process to post a neg. The PSA is just a choice of some members to warn about their intent and is not a forum rule. Which is why I still don't understand why some posters even in
this thread are not negging dooglus but for some reason are expecting
others to do that. If anyone distrusts dooglus for the reasons presented in the OP or any other reasons - just go ahead and do it, how hard can it possibly be.
I also think it's disingenuous to be opposed to the way cryptodevil and whywefight and others are negging ponzis, but at the same time expect a significantly more wide-ranging criteria to be applied to someone you dislike personally. Now
that would be the wrong use for the trust system but thank
God theymos for the tilde.