To address the short posts that I write, sometimes that is all that I need to write in order to get the point across, there is no need to fluff my posts with extra garbage.

It should also be noted that my posts do add something unique to the conversation and are in no way a "plus one" or a "wow great" post.

Looking at your last few posts:
I think it is fairly safe to say that you did not read the OP in this thread very throughly. There is really not any actual content in this post. If you read the OP, you would see that the prizes are bitcoin, and although it is always nice to win money, there is really nothing unique about winning money, and I don't think it is fair to say the prizes are excellent when the OP doesn't even say how much each prize is worth. The OP also says that he will start with easy "puzzles" at first and explains what would need to be used analyzed to claim the prize, which makes your point about wishing you knew how to hack a moot point

This post literally ads nothing to the conversation. The OP was created by a newbie that created his account only weeks ago so it is unlikely that there was any kind of prior relationship with this person. As a result there is little point on congratulating someone on their "first" faucet.

I somewhat doubt that you actually have an account there. I have also noticed that you tend to make very short sentences and start a new line after each very short sentence in order to make your posts appear to be longer then they are. If you were to take out the starting of new lines then the above post becomes what is below
Your post goes from appearing to be 4 lines to actually being 2 lines

I am not sure if there is any reason to make this post. It was posted in a thread in currency exchange. From the looks of it, you don't have any actual intention to do business with this person in the immediate future and are not doing anything to warn his potential trading partners.

This is just a few examples of your recent posts and is by no means an all inclusive list

No I am not interested. If you had read my post, you would see that I am advocating not to buy the account you are selling. Even if the referrals are not fake/fabricated by the owners of the site, the site is still a scam and your referrals will eventually figure this out and stop playing there

I don't think it would be a very good idea for anyone to buy a 999Dice account as they are a scam site and you might as well be associated with the owners of the site who simply changed the DB to reflect that you have a lot of referrals but in reality, once you get payment for the account, the referral earnings stop

It looks like your profile is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=142350

Doing a quick review of your post history, it looks like your posts are made up of mostly "two liners" which is not quite as bad as a "one liner" as they are somewhat longer, but are still essentially spam

This is most likely primarily why you were banned. If post quality goes down, then the chances of a ban go up

If a question has been answered then don't answer it again. If someone gave bad information when answering a question then you can correct any bad info

You probably should not post in gambling if you are not a gambler as chances are you do not have a genuine interest in any of the topics there. If you are posting just to post to get paid then chances are the quality of your posts is going to be bad.

Well I personally always refer people to my profile whenever someone asks for my Skype, so they would have to see it. I am telling people what precautions they need to take, and that if they cannot verify a PGP signed message then they are not dealing with me (if they are aware they are not dealing with me, then it is their problem  and their own fault if they get scammed from someone behind my Skype account).

If you know that a certain instant messaging platform doesn't exactly win awards for security measures, you tell people that you will always give a PGP signed message with payment addresses, and you in fact only give payment addresses that are PGP signed via that platform, then I don't see any reason why someone's incompetence should be rewarded if they actively choose to skip taking certain precautions to protect themselves

There are a lot of people who sign their PM's with "regards" and I would find it conceivable that people would sign messages in similar ways.

The tl;dr way to protect yourself from possible fake feedback is to only accept feedback from people you trust, and if your trading partner does not have enough of that then use escrow

From my profile:
It is not possible to see/get my Skype address without also seeing my disclosure about needing a PGP signed address.

If someone were to get a PGP signed address that was not signed by my PGP key (or one that does not verify) then it is their own fault for not checking. I have previously gotten payment addresses for a very large transaction whose PGP signature did not verify, and my response was that the person needed to resign the message before I would be willing to send funds to them.

Sure this could open up the possibility to fake scam attempts, however like you said the security for Skype (etc) is not the best and should not be relied upon, so instead of relying on their security, people should rely on the security of PGP.

Yes. It has been discussed previously, however I am reluctant to pay up because I highly suspect that the loan was fake and I don't want to give money to what I believe is a scam.

As a practice, I will never give a payment address via Skype (etc) that is not GPG signed by me. I also have this policy posted on my forum profile, and this has been displayed for a long time. This way when someone either hacks my Skype account or is able to impersonate me via Skype or otherwise, without a PGP signed message with a payment address, it will be the fault of whoever supposedly sent funds to the scammer.

I personally do not trust the security practices of Skype or most email providers as they are not designed to be methods that people do business when one person send money via a way that cannot be reversed

You probably would have been much better off taking the account as collateral, as I doubt that he would have objected as he apparently has abandoned the account and you would at least would have been able to sell the account in the event of a default

I don't think this should be a huge surprise, however he confirmed the loan on March 18, 2015, 01:45:06 AM and was last active March 18, 2015, 02:27:42 AM roughly 45 minutes later. The account has no prior trade history and most of it's recent posts were giveaway posts. I think it is safe to say that he is probably not going to repay your loan

it is a conflict of interest. Microsoft is a major source (indirectly because he is not actually an employee of Microsoft) of Vod's income. As a result Microsoft is able to exercise undue influence on him.

There are hundreds of other people on the default trust network and none of them have given any of he MSDN key sellers negative trust. When a newbie asks for a loan without collateral, when someone scams, when an account gets hacked, among other things, multiple people will leave negative trust on an account.

I don't think Vod (or anyone for that matter) is in a position to be telling other people what they can and cannot be trading as long as all parties are clear as to what is being traded.

lol no the negative trust was not given by me. If it was then I would just remove it myself.

He has given negative trust to a number of people who are selling MSDN keys to Microsoft products at highly discounted prices which is financially harmful to Microsoft.

Just because one person left negative feedback first does not mean that they are or are not scamming. Often times negative feedback is left as a means of trying to extort someone into their demands and other times it is retaliatory. I don't think the time that someone left feedback is going to ever have any meaningful value.

Often when someone is being investigated for scamming a negative will be withheld until concrete evidence can be gathered of such scam.

^^ current high bid.

Just over two days to go

There is speculation that antpool had significantly above expected luck to account for part of the jump.

Obviously some of the jump is from new (likely more efficient) hardware being brought online. Part of it could probably be explained by batch 5 (?) of S5's being brought online. Bitmantech had an unusually long production run for this batch of S5s so it is possible they were using some of their production capacity to build their next generation of more efficient miners and brought them online for testing/were mining for themselves. Another possibility is that a private farm built a lot of privately built miners with their own chips. I haven't been following the hashrate distribution closely but it looks like the "unknown" share of found blocks is very high right now and I would think a lot of the unknown found blocks are from corporate miners not mining on pools.  

Did you get a signed message from the previous owner prior to taking possession of the account? If so then you could provide that signed message plus a signed message from an address associated with your account in order to properly document the chain of ownership.

It seems that you answered your own question in the same post that you asked it. And you can't even edit posts in the auction sub

I am in the (United) states. Although I am really not interested in holding most physical collateral, so my location really should not matter.

Do you have any update as to what collateral you are able to offer? I am interested in helping you with this loan, but the price (interest) needs to be right and it needs to be sufficiently secured.