I have been reading your comments but as I think I made clear in the OP this is not a thread where I am going to fervently defend a position but more to invite reflection.
yahoo62278 , yes surely many inside and outside the forum disregard the warnings but we with the tool we have must do the right thing. If someone sees the active flag and negative feedback and deposits a lot of money in the room there he is.
The system surely could be improved but seeing how infrequently he makes changes to the forum theymos and how much he likes to think about it, as it more or less works, I don't see him making any changes any time soon.
Are there people who view it as bad?
Yes, some people see it as “aggressive”.
I have not seen any issue created for feed-backs left on suspicion, if you are convinced that others should be warned of a service or member, you can use a neutral feedback to do that as those can be used for pretty much everything.
I would say that neutral but negative-spirited feedback is more useful in people, not businesses.
If an issue has been raised it will be about using negative feed-backs and not leaving a reference or indicating that this is a suspicion.
It depends on the case, IMO.
Vod, with respect to preventive feedback there are cases and other cases. In the case you mention, you know that many of us do not see it as you do.
One has to balance between judging if "one being innocent until proven guilty" or "one is guilty until they are innocent" but i prefer the former. You have no idea how much brands, services or business try to advertise themselves all the way to the top level. To rubbish that overnight, one must have definitive evidence why they must do so.
As I have explained other times the “innocent until proven guilty” to which we could add “beyond a reasonable doubt” is joined in criminal cases, where sentencing someone to 30 years in prison or the death penalty for a murder is very serious. However in civil cases this does not apply and probability is used more. I believe that forum cases are more similar to civil cases, and that negative feedback for a short period until things are clarified generally doesn't hurt.
KingsDen I think what I have said, which coincides with what others have said I have adressed.
I don't say anything about the rest of the comments because I don't see them focused on the general discussion I was raising.