Although, its a good idea. I think encouraging hackers to basically take ransom payments is not a good idea. A lot of the hackers will reject it anyway because they can earn more with it or sell it on for more and those who finally got a conscious will likely give it back without any sort of payment. I think leaving it to the admins who can research thoroughly into each case and determine the rightful owner is the best way. I don't like encouraging hackers to give it back for a price as that's just morally wrong in my eyes. Of course right now we have a problem with accounts not being recovered even with sufficient evidence and I have pleaded and created a thread asking for theymos to promote Hilariousandco or give someone the permissions to recover accounts. I expect most of the accounts being hacked are a result of the 2015 hack and once the backlog has been got through there won't be too many requests to do per week. I think giving someone a dedicated job to recover these accounts isn't a bad idea at all.

So instead of taking things into your own hands maybe we can sign some sort of petition for theymos to see that we are sick and tired of seeing hacked accounts on meta and then not even being replied to. I think creating a support system which would tell you where you are in the queue and its actually being worked on could help reduce the amount of threads too.