Quote from: tmfp on February 02, 2019, 08:04:02 PM

Extraordinary Claim

Quote from: TECSHARE on February 02, 2019, 05:35:10 PM

Why should anyone care that this kind of behavior can get people thrown in prison, robbed, or killed in their home nations for no other reason than some people here have nothing better to do than play private investigator?

Extraordinary Evidence

Quote from: TECSHARE

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Does this count?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kidnapped+bitcoin

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prison+for+bitcoin

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bitcoin+stolen

Quote from: The Pharmacist on February 02, 2019, 07:47:22 PM

Quote from: TECSHARE on February 02, 2019, 04:54:19 PM

I am sure it is just a total coincidence these accusations escalated to negative ratings shortly after this user started raising issues of abuse in meta.

That's in your head, because the thread that questioned whether the JusticeForYou account had been hacked/sold predated all of this if I'm not mistaken, and he hadn't responded to it until someone bumped it. Besides, he was making pretty level-headed arguments and in my mind wasn't even taking a strong stance on the DT issue like he is now. It's not likely anyone would tag him for that.

The fact is that there are some legitimate concerns that the account changed hands, and all the evidence seems to point to that being the case; everything JFY has said after the tagging just seems like the excuses you'd expect to read after someone got caught buying or hacking and account. I really don't want the accusations against JFY to be true, as he doesn't seem to be a shitposter or a scammer--but the latter could happen eventually if he eventually decided to use his reputation and rank to scam someone.

Quote from: TECSHARE on February 02, 2019, 05:35:10 PM

Why should anyone care that this kind of behavior can get people thrown in prison, robbed, or killed in their home nations for no other reason than some people here have nothing better to do than play private investigator?

Are you talking about JusticeForYou? How is he going to have any of those consequences if he signs a message? Plus I don't think anyone knows enough about his real identity to even assume any of could happen. Hell, if I was in that much danger from just owning a bunch of bitcoin, the last thing I'd do is post on bitcointalk.

Quote from: nutildah on February 02, 2019, 12:41:07 PM

Nope, before the re-awakening his English was master class. Almost perfect by forum standards. I'm going to perform a comparative analysis of the two different time periods when I have some free time.

Yeah, that's the part that you can't make an excuse for. I've tagged members for buying accounts based on mostly this kind of evidence, and when they try to explain why their English suddenly changed when they "woke up", it's never anything that makes sense.

I really have a hard time believing all of you avoiding the topic at hand are incapable of understanding the difference between what you suspect and what you can prove. I have explained here why this arbitrary use of trust ratings is counter productive here and here. You are using circular logic, saying it is what you have done in the past, therefore it is what you should do in the future. What are the consequences of him not signing the message? Why couldn't he be tagged neutral for others to reference if they care to? There is a clear punitive retaliatory element to this instigated as soon as this user started raising issues. This is the standard operating procedure here any time some one comes looking for some kind of recompense or restoration of their account. There is no accountability for this system of arbitrary inquisition and it is wide open to abuse. Without a standard of evidence of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws negative ratings should not be left.