Can default trust members put negs on somebody and then tell them to pay up to remove it?
Yes they can, and I would be very surprised if they were banned for it. They would likely be removed from DT by whomever had them listed, and painted red for days, but the staff in "official" capacity likely wouldn't act.
If you really think this is some felonious assault you need to contact law enforcement. They would contact theymos with appropriate legal documents and theymos would comply of fight it, both of which I believe he has done before. Those are the proper channels to follow not complaining about a bad report and banning another user.
Frankly you sound a little butthurt about a single report not being handled and a user not being banned.
Well, yes anybody can do anything. Anybody could go outside with a gun or knife right now and commit murder...obviously it's an available option lol. I don't think anybody argues that.
I suppose I don't understand: Why isn't illegal activity bannable even though the rules state it? Wouldn't it make the website liable, not only to police investigation requests and what headaches that causes, but also to potential aiding charges should there be enough crime?
Filing a police report would not be a problem, but why must it go that far in order to protect other people?
Can default trust members put negs on somebody and then tell them to pay up to remove it? Obviously the community will revolt against such an activity,
Pay up to whom? if you could ask them to pay to the forum I don't see how that could result in a community revolting, would you consider paying the fee for evil IPs as extortion? or maybe paying for copper membership is also an extortion attempt?
But because forum owners charge those fees nobody says anything.
Stop trolling us for one unhandled report, I've got 27 unhandled reports but you don't see me trolling people for them.
I was giving a hypothetical if a DT member extorts somebody for negative reputation, as in asks them for $100 to remove a negative they gave...not sure what you're going on about copper membership or forum payment or whatever lol. I think you didn't understand what I said, because that response is far out. Diagran as far as I've seen you had some "negative trust removing" thread and then freaked out over getting negs for it. We're talking about documented crime with bulletproof evidence.