And what about the people who are convinced that you were the one that did it and will do as much as they can to damage you, your family and your career off of the forums?

This makes no sense at all.

Consider this hypothetical: You open an account with some service. I hack your account and use the service to buy 1,000 copies of Mein Kampf which I leave on the doorsteps of Holocaust survivors. There's a public outcry over this event and the purchase is investigated. The service publicly announces that your account was used to buy those 1,000 copies of Mein Kampf, which embarrasses you. You receive death threats, harassment, and so on. When you respond that you didn't buy them and that someone else must have hacked your account, does that let the service off the hook for the privacy violation? After all, it wasn't your transaction.

I doubt it, considering if you win, you are classified as someone who produces alcoholic beverages.

Also suspicious: this thread is linked to from their site.

anyone?

i'll put 3 BTC on MtGox.

of course, it's just going to make everyone suspicious of me when it happens... hmmmmm...

Actually no, that's kind of retarded.  Quoting someone discussing violence and admitting they are stalking someone and incriminating themselves is not the same as mentioning that it happened.  We have a separate thread for this now if you want to debate the mod decision that these threats were problematic:  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97365.40

If someone wishes to get a PI to investigate ZT, that's absolutely ok. However, I cannot allow mlawrence or anyone else who even jokingly threatens violence against ZT to publicly gather funds to "investigate" ZT, unless they are directly giving the payment information for a legitimate PI. Anything short of that could potentially leave the forum liable for any illegal action taken against ZT, since the issue was reported to the moderation team. If it wasn't reported, I could care less what you guys do, as long as you're on-topic in the threads you post in. However, this was reported with significant evidence that the funds might be used to hire a hitman.

When you deposit funds on MtGox, those funds are then used for other accounts, it's the way most (if not all) online wallets are working.

MtGox officially confirms currently having on deposit those 15,006.00000000 BTC. As you may know, our system uses a pooled Bitcoin online reserve, which means that activity beyond that point is no longer from Bitcoinica, LP.

We also have disabled the ability to withdraw Bitcoins from the account where those Bitcoins are held to ensure the security of those coins until we receive validated information from an appointed receiver for Bitcoinica, LP.

Remember you don't have to take my word on this, we have his own words and the moderators have confirmed this whole thing by deleting his thread and explaining why they did it.

hmmm... $55 in 2 Paypal accounts...

It was not as simple as that (would be nice if it was).  He offered various verbal guarantees and provided some information about some of the resources he could use to back that up.  I don't understand why he isn't using those (and as it was provided via pm, it is not my place to comment on those here).  I also asked about having a parental acknowledgement and/or guarantee because, as is noted above, the guy is 17 which is currently the only thing I know about him.  The parent involvement was consistently a blank for whatever reason, and I understand that is his choice.  My choice was to step away from this because if I can't get these simple things sorted out easily, I don't need to be worrying about $4k for the next six months.

When you reference violent mob justice, try and find where someone lives, admit you are stalking and committing a crime, you force the mods to act.

Having a tantrum about it does not change the responsibility the moderators have to protect the users of this forum from serious violent threats from other users.  It's a shame he fooled so many of you into buying into his tantrum, I hope you do not think giving him any more attention at this point will be a productive endeavor.

I have already quoted the offending comments in this thread, and Matthew quoted the deleted one you are trying to pretend doesn't exist like a guilty child.  Having a tantrum about it and insulting the integrity of the moderators will not change what happened.  Grownups take responsibility for our actions, and one day you will learn that.

Because the person running it has threatened violence against him.  There is a difference between fearing the law and fearing a lynch mob featuring calls to stalk and injure someone.

For information, I have decided against funding a loan to support the payback of the creditors here.  I believed that it would have been useful for the community to have this mess cleaned up, but my assessment of the risk to my funds (based on information released and not provided) would be too high.