He wasn't "known" (to me) at the time, nor a staff member.  But the reason why I didn't give him a neg was because of all the other trust he'd earned.  I didn't like the fact that he was attempting to deal in bitcointalk accounts, but he did not look like the typical account-dealing scumbag, plain and simple.  And after reviewing your trust page, I see you earned some positives (though from members I don't know) and didn't earn any negatives in 2 years--so I removed the negative. 

I don't remember you asking me about this via PM, but it may well have gotten drowned by a hundred PMs about this sort of thing.