There is no guarantee that paypal will actually approve the chargeback. The person scamming will fight the chargeback, if they lose then they lose nothing because they gave nothing to the buyer and if they win the chargeback dispute then they will have gotten paypal funds for nothing, and will launder/withdraw the funds.

You should use escrow and have the escrow withhold the bitcoin to the buyer for one day.

If you are not willing to use escrow then you are doing nothing more then attempting to scam. It is not guaranteed that paypal will approve the chargeback if a claim is filed.

https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

This will give you an idea as to how many total accounts have been active in a 7 day period and how many unique users were active in the last 7 days (active as in logged in and viewed threads).

From ~Oct 30 - ~Nov 12 (both 2014), roughly 171k users were active from ~151k IP addresses (IP addresses appear to include people who never logged in).

The forum does not moderate scams and they will not moderate any potential scam, nor does it moderate the trust system (contrary to what some people who were previously on default trust would want you to believe).

I do think the numerous banner ads are somewhat spammy though, and they should be removed.

There are a number of what are essentially duplicate posts made several times throughout the thread. I have reported one of the posts to a moderator via the "report to moderator" button on the bottom right of the post and mentioned that many of the posts in the thread have similar issues.

If I had to guess he probably ended up getting banned once badbear was able to see how many of his shitposts got deleted by various moderators (plus how many of his posts that haven't been deleyed are shitposts )

Do you have any proof? I assume that you do not because he did not and you are spreading FUD

His account is probably worth closer to 2-3 BTC as there is somewhat of a limit as to what people will be willing to pay for an account because there are some legit reasons why people would want a trusted account and there are serious risks of trying to scam with a trusted account (if they are caught then the account instantly becomes worthless).

@OP would you be willing to come down on your asking price at all? .9 BTC is pretty steep considering the lack of signature campaigns right now.

No, unless you give some kind of evidence as to what happened, the community will default to the moderators as I can assure you that they know the rules much better then you.

Searching the modlog I discovered that two of your replies to "Major Flaw in Security" were deleted, and looking through the thread it appears that it was the reply about you commenting on macrotheminer's "bump" being a constructive post and you replying to someone else's comment confirming that a bump is allowed every 24 hours (one of which I reported for being signature spam - I am pretty sure). If this is what you are complaining about then whoever deleted your post was ~70% correct in their actions as you post had nothing to do with the OP of the subject thread.

It is my understanding that the moderators will be very familiar with the rules of the forum in order to become a moderator and from their experience as a moderator. The only legit reason to delete a post is because it broke a rule.

I do agree that the moderators do make mistakes occasionally as they are human, however I would seriously doubt that their egos would ever cloud their judgment.

Again I think you should post what was deleted along with the thread so the community can make it's own judgment.

If your post did not break any rules of the forum then it would not have been deleted.
I think you are. Most of your posts/threads you start have some kind of subject matter that will solicit a lot of responses that disagree with you and you often rely multiple times to people debating them with weak/no arguments.

I would suggest (as mentioned above) that you provide more information about what posts you had deleted so the community can see what exactly is being "censored"

This would allow the staff to scam and the staff are not (AFAIK) vetted in any way outside of what is publicly available on the forum. It would also effectively be moderating scams which is something the forum does not do (if you moderate a scam then if you miss one then the forum is effectively endorsing a scam and could be held liable). It would be a guaranteed way to get the forum involved in litigation as people would have disputes that the forum would need to resolve and when one party does not agree the other side would almost certainly initiate litigation if the amount in dispute is large enough.

You are asking to be protected from others' actions but it is your responsibility and your responsibility alone to protect yourself from scams and you need to use common sense before you buy, sell or invest in something.

This is probably the point of the new signature campaign. If he advertises more then he will have more people gambling on PD (hopefully gambling higher amounts) and with more people gambling he will have less overall variance. With his higher overall betting volume he will have a higher EV of profits from his 1% house edge (unless it changed back to .9%)

The delation message says that it was most likely off topic not that it was specifically off topic. It says that posts can be deleted for other reasons. Your post was deleted because it broke some rule.

It sounds like you are concerned about your post count being lowered from deleted posts. I would suggest putting more thought/effort into your posts as this will likely result in your posts not getting deleted and will reduce your chances of getting banned for spamming useless posts to essentially zero.

All collateral should be held by a trusted third party escrow. The escrow can enter an order to liquidate the collateral in the event the price falls below a certain level.

if you "know" where "he" lives then you are somehow associated with him. What would stop you from colluding with one party and releasing the funds to that party inappropriately?

What is the repayment amount?

as I mentioned in my PM the message needs to be old (preferably at least 3 months old) to ensure that your account is not hacked.

He is trusted by badbear so his trust would show up. However what bitcoinpolice is doing is not untrustworthy even though it probably breaks the rules via trolling and is extremely immature, not to mention he fact that he only calls out the obvious scams (although he has started to call out things that may or may not actually be scams)

Do you mean european football or american football?

Your collateral is worth way less then what you are trying to borrow. It looks like your doge is worth just under .02 and if you are telling the truth about the mnxiv then your collateral is worth .12 plus the roughly .02 for your wstl comes to .14 but I don't think many people would lend against it. I don't think having control over a "group" on your forum has any real value (especially to a lender - you could just revoke the rights) but I may be wrong.

If you are going to borrow with collateral you will need to borrow less (usually ~20%) then the value of your collateral