It's unlikely they will have any interest in any of your messages, unless it's for a special reasons. Some in the past have been for legal reasons I believe. However, like others have suggested you can encrypt any sensitive messages. The only time they are likely to look at your messages is because the other recipient reported the message, rather than them randomly poking around.  

I don't think this needs to be implemented. If you've lent to someone and they've disappeared, then it doesn't matter if they are banned or not really. You can still send a message saying to contact you elsewhere if you have a suspicious that the person is banned.

It wouldn't hurt if it was implemented, but it isn't priority.

I still run into this from time to time. Completely understand why there is a restriction on it though. I can imagine it being a pain in the arse for staff members.

It depends on who the user has in their trust list, that determines what they see. Majority of users probably stick with default trust, with a depth of two though.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust

Any chance you will be having betting on the 6 Nations? Wales all the way! Good rivalry against the English in the millennium stadium. Should be a close and fun match to watch.
Just saw you have the 6 Nations listed! Brilliant!

Are you 100% sure you haven't got no collateral at all to offer? I sometimes find it hard to believe that someone hasn't got any collateral at all. If collateral is involved and it would be fairly easy to find a buyer for the same price as the amount lent I would be willing to offer minimal interest if any at all.

I really hate discourse. I don't think I've spent more than 30 minutes on it though, so I can't bash on it too hard. I just didn't like it. I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't like it either.

Everything will be transferred over.

This forum it meant for discussion about Bitcoin, why does not having a avatar affect that? 2 factor would be nice, but the new forum is on it's way. I don't think you realise how much work needs to be done on building new software & designing it. I would rather wait a few years than having a shit attempt of making the forum. I'm not 100% sure why email verification is necessary, I can't remember if it's in the new forum but, it really isn't a big deal if we have it. If we bring back newbie jail I believe that's just limiting the real posters and when the newbie jail was active it just lead to spam just so people could get out, no the spam wasn't everywhere. But, it was concentrated in the newbie & help section, which believe it or not people do ask some quality questions from time to time.

You can go look at the repo to see the progress being made, there's changes everyday. There's also been a preview over in "New forum software" which has now changed.

It's not that the bots are too much of a big deal either they get dealt with within an hour of reporting.

I wouldn't post out of meta or send any personal messages until this is resolved, otherwise you could be ban evading. You already know why you were banned by the looks of the information you provided above. So there is no need to receive any further information. Your going to have to wait whether they'll ban this account too or allow you to continue using it. If those accounts were banned in last year, it seems you knew you were ban evading for quite some time.

Call him out on his 'false' evidence. If it's not concrete I can't imagine anyone is going to take any notice. If he's deleting posts and then posting again to bump the thread to the top of the pile, report it stating that reason. His trust rating doesn't carry much weight so I wouldn't worry about that.

Looking at the reference that he provided to the scam accusation he hasn't bumped yet, although he may of deleted it recently, I don't know.

I've reported god knows how many of these over the past week or so. They are posting the same stuff so pretty easy to identify. They also post in the same sections, but it seems to be random as I haven't noticed any posting patterns. Just look at the modlog, the majority of those accounts getting nuked are these bots.

He has made the announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=940383.0

He has almost certainly read the initial request and probably a bit of the discussion of this thread, if not all. He does give his input when it is needed you can verify this by visiting numerous meta threads. To be quite honest this particular instance doesn't need to be addressed by him. If he feels the need to pitch in I'm sure he will.

If you see them bumping like that then report it, they will be dealt with. I see the user did it multiple times within 24 hours. Obviously, the topic has been locked now.

I suggest anyone looking for a loan and providing collateral should seek a trusted third party to hold the collateral. This way, you are protected from collateral theft.

I've had newbies ask me questions a few times via PM. I expect likewise for other members which are active. Generally they seem to want to know a particular question which they don't want to ask pblicly because of the fear of embarrassment maybe. I don't like to see restrictions and I don't believe restricting personal messages from newbies has a good thing.

I haven't been on youtube a lot recently, but when I last checked I noticed they were slowly migrating to using html 5, which is a very smart move. I wouldn't of thought this is going to be completed any time soon though.

The main reason why scammers aren't banned is because of the possibility of staff members being bias. Instead of having to deal with numerous complaints for moderators being biased, the forum doesn't get involved. If your suggestion was a feature users could abuse this with their alternative accounts and it would cause more problems that it solved.

Yeah I was aware of most of the things which can be recognised. Although, I did based my replies on Tor rather than a VPN. Thanks for the link though, I wasn't certain on a few things.

Experience I suppose. He probably can identify a lot of people without even knowing the technical process of it all.

That's exactly what I meant with the pattern recognising. Although, for some reason I just assumed most people would be up to date on their web browsers, because of the auto updating software which normally comes with the browser, unless you choose not to update. Although, with Tor browser none of this applies as it appears that every user is using the same operating system and browser version. I would put money on Badbear having enough suspicion/evidence.

Besides, Badbear has gained enough experience over time and probably can identify them before gaining as much information as that.