Quote from: yahoo62278 on June 04, 2023, 01:09:50 PM

I think you are very aggressive with your opinion and insulting users when you make a post is not how to get others to agree with your opinion. I have quoted DireWolfM14's feedback from Timelords profile. The guy is not always right when posting his feedbacks, he gets 1 wrong here and there.

While I agree with the first part and don't think it's appropriate to insult anyone online or elsewhere, I believe the second part is overlooked.

When it comes to accusing someone of scam or of "being persona that is risky to deal with", given the damage that one can cause to the accused member - the only thing that matters is how many times you get things WRONG, the number of cases you get right become less and less irrelevant, just like when a court judge or a neurosurgeon get it 99 right and then fail on the 100th time, it wipes out all those good shots.

Looking at Timelord or the other members who have accused hundreds of members, I can see the good intention they are based on, I am not saying they are bad or untrustworthy members, I just think they have no idea about the amount of damage they cause to innocent people along the way of pursuing the actual "bad guys".

I personally rather have 100 scammers walking around the forum than be unjust to one single honest member who contributes to the forum.

I usually don't join these DT-related discussions and I left DT1 willingly because I think this DT drama takes too much time and effort and keeps me from focusing on the more important things this forum has, I only came here because my name was mentioned and I got the notification when I read the topic, it reminded of something that happened to me a while back.

I hired a forum member to work on one of the projects for me, and he asked me to send the monthly payment to his BTC address on his profile, I did just that for the first month, and then I remembered all forum warriors who might accuse us of being alts, I asked him to send me a different address for the future payments and explained to him why, all this while knowing fair well that I and the member I hired would have many trusted members come to our defense and it would be impossible to have a solid proof that we are related in any way or shape, but the drama, the headache, and the hours wasted having to defend yourself just because someone thought they "found a solid proof".

I could only imagine what the other members who don't have anyone to defend them must be feeling when doing anything on the forum, the paranoia and endless fear of being wrongly accused and having their reputation ruined for nothing.

Such accusations require solid proof, and I believe everyone agrees on that, the problem however, we can't define what solid proof is, Timelord in his accusation against HedgeFX (which I just got to know about from this topic) was based on both users using an exchange wallet, I am not sure how strong of evidence he thinks that was, and it's up to him to think whatever, but it just shows that we can never agree on the set of rules in regards to what makes a proof valid.

Now the real question is, what has the forum achieved by connecting all those alts (both right and wrong connection), and how much damage was caused? how many real scams did we prevent vs how many great members left because they couldn't stand the fact that some members have nothing better to do than follow their every post and transaction in an attempt to find or invent some proof to destroy their reputation?

Looking at someone like sandy-is-fine who has been actively fighting scam for years without getting any attention or posting a new topic/post for everything he finds, fighting scammers in their homeland sections, causing little to no damage to innocent users, using the least server resources, not having to post dozen of new topics connecting two newbie accounts that were created 2 hours ago and pose no risk to the community, I think that is a great example of how "protecting the forum" should be, not accusing two members of being alts because they made the same typo a year ago.