There are times when negative feedback before a scam is invaluable. Recently, a trusted member tried to get a lot of coin based on collateral that she had private funds coming in this spring. She may have succeeded if I had not warned people, and I can always remove my feedback and make arrears should she actually show proof of funds. But there were so many contradictions in her story she has lied at least once already.
Yeah, and it's funny you should post in this thread because when Poker Player wrote this:
I immediately thought of you, because while he and nutildah may have been the coal mine's canary with respect to freebitco.in, neither one is the first to leave prophylactic paint jobs on people's trust profiles. You've been doing it in the Currency Exchange section for
years. BTW I'm not knocking you, Poker Player. I know you didn't mean to imply you discovered the value of tagging potential scammers, because that's been S.O.P. for quite a few DT members, also dating back a number of years.
Personally I think DT members need to be aggressive on this forum; if they weren't, all we'd have is an enormous lineup of scam victims and other assorted fires that needed to be put out. You know that old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"? It's absolutely relevant to bitcointalk and scam busting/prevention.