I think what's sadder is the state of the community. There is no one outside of you two who are lining up all of the facts, making a judgement call and adding their official input.
This is not just something that we see here in this case, but I have seen it with large scale scams throughout the forum, where accusers are left to fight on their own while the accused are free to ignore, without much consequence from other members.
In current cases, I will say that members do their best to stay objective for both sides...though overall, I think some sort of incentive is needed for members to investigate and add opinions, to prevent things from being up in the air for so long.
Do you know the most frightening threat here being passed around other than getting banned? Is threatening someone with negative trust to get them kicked out of their garbage spamming business, that's the ultimate intimidation skills of most people.
When they hear someone talks about 500 BTC they get dizzy and confused, hell even when they hear 2-3 BTC involved they get lost on their way back to their house for a few days.
So don't expect any "investigation" and official inputs here.
Vod is just hurt, disappointed and heart broken, things didn't go according to his expectations after years of contribution, he went too far and destroyed whatever good he had done for what? For petty things.
Besides, nobody wants to get involved out of fear of RED TAG, because when you get one, you are done, there is no way to remove it, due to "decentralized" nature etc you know?(sarcasm) I mean this system is so chaotic that not even the designer is safe from it's backfiring flaws.
Whatever you do, people find a way to game it.😉 only if there were some courageous unbiased people to fight the corruption without fearing of retaliation, it'd be great.