IMO the creation of a potential scammer tag would be a worrying development for these forums. The opinion of forum mods on whether someone is a scammer or not is very influential - particularly for junior forum members. As a result, forum mods have a responsibility not to exercise this power in such a way that it actively hurts legitimate members - such as by issuing premature scam warnings.
I totally agree with you, which is why I mentioned that the level of evidence must still reach that of the scammer tag. However, unlike the scammer tag, I'm proposing that this be applied while we wait for the person to compensate the person who was scammed.But yeah, maybe it does go too far. It just pisses me off that so many people lost money just because we didn't label them as soon I we knew that they were scammers.
If you read this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65989 , from the beginning, you will see there is an amount of time before I showed up with my, "evidence". Then there was about 5 more weeks before the mods gave him the scammer tag. Had there been a warning, or a question mark on him when I showed up, another 100 btc would not have been lost. The mods are very conservative and do require significant evidence and time before they make a decision such as this. What else do you suggest?
Maged, thank you so much for your time and trouble. It is greatly appreciated. I personally think this is a great idea. (esp since I'm becoming very fond of this community
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