Sure I can escrow the account for you. Just send me a PM and I will write up an escrow agreement. My fee is .0075 BTC or 1%, whichever is greater and is payable in advance.

Well to avoid the problem of people potentially forgetting their password to decrypt their PM's the forum could automatically encrypt PM's sent to someone using javascript, users would then store the private key locally, outside of their browser in order to decrypt the message. If PGP is used, and the user is using GPGTools as their PGP client, and their private key is stored locally, then decrypting it would be as arbitrary as highlighting text and making two clicks (and entering your passphrase).

In theory, the javascript could be modified so that whenever someone enters their password to decrypt a PM that the password is transmitted to either the forum or a third party attacker which would essentially allow them to decrypt any PM for that user.

That is not how collateral works. In order for the lender to be protected, the collateral must be "in hand" prior to the borrower receiving the loan. It would also be best for any collateral to be held by a trusted third party when borrowing from this lender

I don't see a reason why the forum would need to automatically decrypt your PM's for you. If you were to have everyone give a public key to the forum to have your PM's automatically encrypted to, then decrypting a PM would only be a matter of using your PGP client to decrypt the message manually for you which really would not take that much effort. This would let people determine how much security their PGP private keys have.

For clarification this is not true. The OP has/was using a custom trust list, the trust network of which included people who are not in the default trust network. You should not add anyone to your trust list just because you have given them positive trust for a trade, you should only add someone to your trust list if you both trust them enough to give accurate ratings and to only include people in their own trust list who give accurate ratings. The fact that you have given trust to someone in itself is not going to change the way that you view anyone's trust.

For clarification also not true. Clicking on that link will only show you who is in your trust network based on your trust list and trust depth setting.
Your trust score is partly based on how old your first positive trust received is. Your trust score only takes trust reports from people in your trust network into consideration. If you only receive one positive trust then it will take 10 months to get the one trust point required to get light green trust, if you receive two positive trust reports then it will take 5 months, if you get three then it will take 4 months (3.333 but I believe  the trust system only measures in whole months - I may be wrong on this), if you get 4 then 3 months (2.5), and so on. The trust system has an anti spam measure that makes it so only one positive trust per person per month is taken into consideration, so if you got three positive trust reports from one person in one month then only one would count

nibbknot is someone who at least claimed to be Bruno Kucinskas - I can't imagine that Bruno actually worked for BFL though lol.

If the thread is locked by a moderator then the OP cannot unlock the thread. If you locked the thread then you can unlock it as you wish.

I just tested with a thread that I had created and I can confirm that when I locked the thread that I cannot edit any of my posts, however I can delete a post of mine that is not the OP when locked.

Sure there are. Plus there are services like amazon mTurk which will pay humans fractions of a penny to solve captchas for you

In theory you can automate the process so you could buy multiple accounts and have your bot do this automatically

Well it should be somewhat obvious when someone is doing this because of consistent claiming for more hours per day then what logically makes sense, plus if one IP address (or IP range) has a large number of accounts that only claim faucet funds then it should be obvious they are just farming the accounts.

Even if they can't claim the faucet and tip to their bank, they can possibly place a single bet with the entire faucet amount and be able to tip the winning every so many faucet claims.

I would be interested to know how many BFL related posts were ever deleted. I am sure it is a lot if 3k+ users had their deleted posts released. I can only imagine the poor staff attorney who has to go through all the posts on the various threads, especially the ones with the ridiculous pictures (that I have read about), many of which I am sure are NSFW.

There were probably BFL threads in almost every section.

I would guess that this probably has something to do with why one of the BFL threads was recently apparently locked.

It is a free market. Plus the minimization of the forum is going to allow and encourage a lot of people to get involved in bitcoin that would not otherwise be involved in bitcoin. It will also provide a venue that new bitcoin related businesses can advertise and increase the size of their business.
I would disagree. At least in a way that you are implying what the moderators are doing. When someone says that someone is the "thought police" they are generally saying that people who disagree with a certain viewpoint will be punished.

The way the moderation of the forum could possibly be considered to be "thought police" is that people who say things without thinking are punished.

I think it is absurd that anyone would expect their hands to be held to protect them from getting scammed. If you can see that something is a scam then you should not invest and warn others to not invest.

In most cases people are banned and posts are deleted when it is very clear their post has no value and are not contributing to the conversation.
I find it ironic that you bring this up the line after you are criticizing the forum for judging people based on their contribution to a thread.

The above described kind of people do get banned.

I hope you realize that the report to moderator button is for when a post/thread is either breaking the rules or is in the incorrect location. If someone is making a large number of shitposts then it would probably be better if you opened a thread here about them or sent a PM to a global mod or BadBear.

He does not make over $1,000 per week lol. He received 2.26BTC on April 3, however he usually receives less then 2 BTC per month, and the most he has ever received is 2.85 BTC for a month.

At current exchange rates that means he is making roughly $460 per month based on current exchange rates.

it is regarding trust left by vod and vod is in the default trust network.

It looks like this person had not actually posted that he was leaving the campaign but he did remove/change the signature (did he tell you via PM?)

That thread is very new. I don't think receiving a signed message from an address posted in that thread would do very much to prove ownership.

How did you know the previous owner actually owned the account when you purchased it from him?

Has it actually posted that address in the past? If you are getting the loan to your deposit address then you most likely will not be able to sign a message from that address.

How much can you repay? Can you provide a signed message confirming ownership of the member account? I assume the member account has neutral trust, correct?

Why did you create a brand new account to ask for a loan if you are putting a member account up for collateral?

I believe they allow for tipping so you could claim the faucet and then tip an alt account then claim the faucet again once the waiting time is up. In theory it is even possible to automate this process.