I'd like to correct that "has been" to "continues to be".  I was targeted for a very long time by someone who finally revealed his true colors to people with power.  Let's not forget that the reason I found that alt account he was using for his escrow scheme is because it was the 4th in a line of sockpuppets he was using to justify his abusive rating on me.  It's very strange to me that as soon as one accuser becomes discredited another one pops out of the woodwork, making even less attempt to pretend to be a neutral party acting on the behalf of the community, Wardrick's posts seem to be straight-up harrassment combined with threats of doxxing and hidden control of default trust (have you looked at what this guy is writing since he reappears?).  Certainly most of this is bluster, but it's not pretty and I appreciate folks calling attention to it.

Also, please keep in mind that I have never traded here.  Who knows, someday I might trade something here but I'm certainly not a service provider/escrow/seller/buyer.  I say this to emphasize that I don't need a green trust rating and I'm not trying to pump up my trust rating or anything else.  I do, however, object to abusive negative ratings being put on my account and the fact that Wardick seems to be continuing the tradition of harasing me based on TF's discredited accusations is certainly shameful behavior.

Theymos has explained why recent feedback throws the trust rating into ? ??, then we have Wardick having edited his feedback back and forth between two texts three times now in 36 hours.  That certainly seems like a blatant attempt from Wardick to game the system.  I understand that you don't think outing Quickseller's scheme should have brought so many trust ratings to my account, but I kinda think that if Wardrick weren't trying to manipulate the system and play games, then people wouldn't be standing up for me.

Wardrick, what did you even change from the 2nd feedback to the 3rd one..looks about the same to me.

No. The entire notion of having an escrow is the fact that a trusted neutral third party is available to arbitrate the deal if anything ensures. The argument that some people here say they're 'self-escrowing' for some deals lies to the fact that the other party knows and fully trusts him/her to go through his part of the deal, and understands that there will be no  third party being involved here. It is utterly dishonest and downright cheating when the escrower and one of the party is colluding/the same person as the outcome/decisions made will not be fair to the other party at all.

I've did much more then that without meeting up, just fyi.

This just proves you can't fully trust anybody on this forum. Ask yourself the question, if you were trying to buy or sell 100,000 bitcoins or a similar ridiculous amount would you trust anybody on this forum to escrow for you?

I'd rather do a face to face meet but carry a gun for protection

Right, especially when you're the escrow service that the other person is blithely paying into.  I think I can see how your philosophy works and I'm pretty sure it explains a lot about your character traits we've observed.

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The website seems legit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=970780.0

Can you give more details? Where do I see it? I've added users to my trust list before and not noticed their trust list appear anywhere.

Edit: oh, are you saying I should wipe out my whole trust list other than 2 entries, just keeping in the person I want to examine, and ~DefaultTrust?

There's really no need for that. Just use a trusted escrow and you won't need to use a third-party website.

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In a neutral position you would've looked at the situation and evaluate. In this case your belief in QS makes you arrive at


even though he hasn't said that clearly. The irony in this situation is that you believe in QS, and he fooled you into giving him feedback on two accounts, essentially abusing your default trust position. I am sure if you didn't have full faith in him you would have realised all this long back.

You believe that? have you considered the possibility that he made that up to try and get out of a tight corner? Or is your faith in him is so absolute that you are incapable of thinking for yourself?

This thread has been fantastic. It shows how far otherwise trustworthy people would bend their morals rather than admit that they were wrong in their judgement (TC, Blazedout419, Blazr, xetsr). Credit to Vod for being able to see this with an open mind. If anything it would have been easy for him to fall in the same pattern as you as he is tageted so much.