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Like the popular saying goes: difficult times demands difficult decisions.
I don't see this matter is a difficult time and the suggestion isn't a difficult decision.
Literally speaking, I didn't mean that the matter is quite a difficult one per say, but rather that the times are difficult to putting trust on people so easily as we don't even know who to trust nowadays and that preventive measures should be taken in all situations irrespective of what others may think. For the decision to restrict newbies from engaging in the lending board should be viewed as a necessary preventive measure.