I understand why you are trying to say, but can you show me a similar thread that received merit because they lost their Bitcoin? This isn't a topic that looks like a merit fishing stuff, maybe I am wrong but sorry to say I won't dare merit this post at all, 11BTC is gone, what will merit do at this point? I feel sorry for whoever this person is but what does this have to do with merits? It solves nothing to this problem.
They must have done something wrong using the crypto wallet without them knowing, it can happen to anybody but there is no way this will fetch him merits, if he truly want merit he would have talk about ways to avoid the mistakes, things beginners need to do to avoid getting their Bitcoin wallet compromised?
There is no single tutorial or even advice, he merely shared his painful experience, with the way you think, imagine if this is real? Have you even consider to think it this way?
You're right; I might be a little harsher without it being necessary. After all, we're all innocent until proven guilty. To correct my statement, the majority of the threads I mentioned being created for attention from newbies were regarding lost Bitcoin that was supposedly bought in the early days. I can possibly find a few because I remember replying to some of them. I don't know if this incident is real or not; I'm hoping it's not, because losing 11 bitcoins is tough and a burden that isn't easy to carry, but still, it doesn't make too much sense. Any reasonable person would have gone ahead and taken steps to secure this kind of money. I'm not judging if someone doesn't know how to sign a message either, as it's something that I haven't done myself either; however, something doesn't add to this story. Is it the way the bitcoins were lost, or is it because the OP might not be telling us something more vital to explain how it might have happened? I don't know.