If a staff member such as Dabs sent a pm to anyone asking for money and then rewarded merits to the people that gave him money it would be an abuse.
In fact are staff members allowed to ask members for money via pm?
It would be very difficult to say no for fear of retaliation from staff.
I've asked personal friends for coins. Some said yes. Some said no. Got nothing to do with the forum although I understand you feel it may.
You should really stop doing that. You sent me the same PM because I donate to a charity years ago. I don't know you and out of the blue you asked me for money, making me think that your account was compromised. I think it's really inappropriate for a staff member to send (unsolicited) begging for money.
I was asked for money and I don't know Dabs so it could be op is connecting some dots.
I told Dabs I would like a btc addy to send to. I then spent a few hours for a few days reading his posts. I decided to not send coin.
I think Dabs should not ask me or anyone else such as thenewanon135246 for coin via pm.
I think no staff admin mod or even theymos should ask for coin via pm.
By this I mean rule 29 as stated by LoyceV
I am not looking to report staff, admin, mod or theymos for breaking rules simply because I do fear retaliation. Why do I fear retaliation I was fully doxxed this year on the following website.
https://badbuyerlist.org/The reason was a lie , but the name and phone number are accurate.
So I have already suffered retaliation and since 95% of my internet footprint is this site most likely someone from here did this to me.
So now that staff starts asking me for money does it mean I show up on that list with more falsehoods spoken if I say no to sending coin?
I realize most likely that a scammer on marketplace tagged me and that Dabs asking for money is just that he is broke and desperate for money.
Now it looks like he asked at least 2 legends that don't know him. I would have left this all alone until I saw this thread.
By asking me a person that is suffering from a doxxing already it caused me a lot of grief.
So now I fear a new dox lie getting reported on badbuyerlist.org because I posted here in this thread.
My thoughts are Dabs has nothing to do with the dox, but that someone on this site (most likely a marketplace scammer) did the false dox.
It is simply not a good idea for staff to ask for money via pm. As it can put the person asked for the money in a funny state of mind. Which is where I am at right now.