It is probably an account for sale (or a sold account). I think he is trying to build up his post count so he can get a higher activity level to make it more valuable. It is not my account so I cannot say for sure one way or another if it is hacked.

No thanks. Good luck.

what is the reason you would want to discourage the use of escrow like this? You have zero positive trust so there is no reason to trust you and it does not cost you 10% to use escrow.

Escrow? are you able to prove you purchased the gift card via legit means?

It is true. A good explanation as to how activity works can be found on this thread.

They did not make 14 posts in each two week period, they made less. Your activity is calculated as the minimum of either the number of posts or the number of two week periods they have posted in times 14

You should report the OP if what he is doing is clearly illegal. (I am not personally familiar with MSDN keys so I cannot speak on the legality issue). The thread will likely get deleted if this is illegal which will be much more effective then giving the OP negative trust.

They have not publicly confirmed that the campaign is closed to new members however it appears to be closed. Probably because too many people were using it and making zero posts.

I guess you do have a good point about restricting what they should be able to do while banned. Although I think a banned user should be able to post in meta if they are banned to be able to dispute a ban, this would stop badbear from having to explain why someone was correctly banned (the community could just point to their crappy posts) but this is a different discussion.

I would say there is an argument both ways. On one side you should restrict what someone can do while banned as much as possible and leaving negative feedback could get a mod to unban a user in an effort to work out the negative feedback.

On the other hand the forum takes a very liberal stance as to what is allowed for feedback to avoid the appearance of helping a potential scam. As well as the fact that someone could have actually gotten scammed right before getting banned so they should be able to warn others.

Well what would be the difference between a banned user sending false feedback and someone creating a new account and leaving false feedback? At least with a banned user leaving false feedback you can easily speak to the reason for the feedback while this would be more difficult if it was a newly created account via tor/vpn (no IP connection between the two accounts can be made).

The feedback from ladybitcoin isn't even correct. It is my understanding that staff doesn't even ban anyone (except newbies?) and anyone that knows this fact would know the feedback is invalid.

It is possible that someone were to get scammed right before they are banned plus someone could create a new account and leave feedback. (Trust is not moderated).

Personally I would look at your overall feedback and consider you trustworthy so I wouldn't worry about it.

They can become member accounts once they make at least 60 posts each so they are not "normal" newbie accounts.

Bitmixer (Thread)
Miscellaneous: It appears that the campaign may be closed to new participants. See this post.

I would suggest checking out this thread. It is kept up to date with all the current signature deals.

There are generally few sig deals available for members out there, but they do pop up every now and then.

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It is fowned upon because you are essentially buying trust. If you buy trust then it makes it easier for you to scam in the future.

If you sent first to someone who has essentially zero trusted trust, then there is a very good risk that you will get scammed, you should either use escrow or trade in much smaller tranches (I don't know why you would not use escrow as it is free).

That kind of activity is very frowned upon in this community. I would strongly suggest that you lock this thread and close the offer ASAP

You should use an exchange for DRK. There is no real reason why you would need to use the currency exchange subforum other then the fact that you are trying to get positive reputation. (you will likely end up getting negative reputation in the process).

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Money Pot (both PPP and Fixed) (Thread) 
Miscellaneous: Campaign has closed. Ownership of the site has transferred, and the new owner wants to make some changes to the site.

CoinPiler Sig Campaign (Thread)
Minimum posts: 40 posts
Payments: S: 0.12BTC per month; F: 0.06 BTC per month; M: 0.05 BTC per month; J: .02 BTC per month
Miscellaneous: The campaign is still showing as non-escrowed, was recently updated to closed for new participants. In order to qualify S+ must have at least 600 posts, F must have at least 300 posts, M must have at least 100 posts and J must have at least 60 posts prior to enrolling in the campaign.

PRCdice.eu (Thread) 
Miscellaneous: The campaign is now closed/ended. They are not getting enough traffic from bitcointalk.org to make it worth their advertising bitcoin

777 coin (Thread)
Miscellaneous: It looks like a new thread was started with a new campaign manager. Also it appears the campaign is now open (instead of closed for new participants).

BTCBackers (Thread)
Payment period: Likely never 
Miscellaneous: Payment was due on the 30th, it is now Nov 2nd, so they are three days late. Additionally the HYIP site appears to be "closing"/failed.