Quote from: The Pharmacist on May 21, 2019, 08:50:59 PM

Quote from: Lauda on May 21, 2019, 08:36:12 PM

Quote from: bill gator_appeal on May 21, 2019, 08:32:20 PM

bill gator is an account I bought on November 7th, 2015.

I think I'm having another aTriz nightmare.

Lol. And I'm waiting for the troll posse to start with the "why isn't bill gator not tagged for buying his account?" posts. As a preemptive answer, he apparently bought the account before account selling became a sin around here, and I'm definitely not going to give him a neg for it. Nor am I going to remove him from my trust list for that or for the plagiarism, which he (the current owner) likely didn't do.

If the plagiarism in question really is the post from 2015, I do hope bill gator can successfully appeal this ban. I think he's a good member here, even if others might not agree with some of his opinions or with my assessment of him. I've had financial transactions with him where he's been trustworthy and personal conversations with him which have demonstrated his likeable personality. Those are traits in short supply on bitcointalk, and I'd hate to see members like him get punished for something the previous owner of the account did.

Quote from: TMAN on May 21, 2019, 08:39:13 PM

Fucking slippery prick buying an account

That was 2015, dude. The account buying problem was nowhere near as bad as it has since become, and account dealers didn't start getting tagged until 2016.

The other problem is that he has gone so far out of his way to lie about it. He had every opportunity to come clean when I brought this up a few months ago.

Instead he came up with this crap:

Quote from: bill gator on January 14, 2019, 10:20:25 PM

Quote from: MadZ on January 14, 2019, 09:10:38 PM

Given the fact that Toy4lov3rs used the address a year before you did, it's pretty damning.

Toy4lov3rs is one of my clueless IRL friends. The only IRL friend I know of that has an account on the forum, in fact (unfortunately). It's a shame that I feel I have to explain this. They know nothing of Bitcoin, and next to nothing about the forum. I got them to read about a dozen stickies, on a newly created account, but I don't remember the username of that account and it's probably still a 0-post newbie. They very seldom log into their account and have no interest in the forum.

They were wanting to apply for a campaign and told me they were confused. After I explained to them that they would be denied for the quality of their posts, they proceeded to use the template I provided as an example for their actual application, which had my address on it. If memory serves, I had created that address specifically while walking them through how to create an address on Core to replace the address within the "template". You call this benign situation "damning", as if there is a valid accusation somewhere in there. When in reality all that is here is Address Mismanagement and Miscommunication while walking a friend through a process.

Rmcdermott927 and Toy4lov3rs even spoke extensively and had further interaction off the forum. I'd feel more comfortable asking them if I can elaborate on that before doing so; That shouldn't even be necessary.

Toy4lov3rs is not my account, but I did go to high school with the owner.

Quote from: MadZ on January 14, 2019, 09:10:38 PM

If I was you, I really wouldn't push the issue as to why someone wouldn't want you on DT, unless you have an extremely good reason for the facts outlined above.

I don't feel like people should be walking on egg-shells around here when they have done nothing wrong. I don't know how to make it clearer, but I do not have a care in the world about being on DT. Nor do I understand why you're making these emboldened statements. I appreciate the suggestion, but it seems you misunderstand my intention.

Didn't have the energy at the time to follow up on it, but yeah, I don't know how you can say this isn't super shady.