What an interesting person you are. What is it, double standards? How did you determine who should do what? There are rules, they are everywhere. They are on the stock exchange, in our offline life (a set of laws) and they are on the forum. If I registered on the forum, then I agree with the rules. If I violated - I think they will punish me in some way, maybe they will ban me, lower the trust or do something else.
So why the forum can have rules https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0#post_rules and the stock exchange does not? And if we take into account that the wording of the forum rules is sometimes so blurry that it covers almost all possible scenarios, the forum rules can be read as "If necessary, we will do what we want."
23. When deciding if a user has broken the rules, the staff have the right to follow their interpretation of the rules.
If the agreement with the exchange does not mean anything, then what about the forum rules?
I think the rules are needed, they must be observed - chaos will be without rules.
Livecoin can ban the user and they can even keep user's money but they will be rightfully labeled as scammers if they do. Absurd or even illegal rules can and should be challenged. Unfortunately all those scammy exchanges have become very crafty at stealing small enough amounts so that it's not viable for users to sue.
This has nothing to do with forum rules. Forum is not confiscating your money.
The exchange did not take the money. Where is it written that they stole something from him? Show exactly where it is written that the exchange stole his money. We are talking about blocking his account and while it is a temporary blocking, until all the consequences are eliminated. Read this topic, read the posts of this user, look at his behavior. Nothing strange?