Do you not have anything better to do than troll threads involving disputes between Legendary members?

I can say with certainty that Vod is in fact not a humble person.

I was answering your question specifically how I would feel about the situation. I also understand that others feel differently.

Maybe granting loans is different than trading physical items, which is what I was doing, and there would be less of a legitimate reason to hold collateral for a loan with a hidden alt. The transactions I acted as escrow for myself were transactions in which I had to disclose my IRL identity, or risk being forced to refund my buyer if something went wrong. One of the transactions involved me shipping something internationally, and I had to disclose my IRL identity on the customs form which is attached to the package. The other transaction involved me selling someone bitcoin via Western Union (it might have been a similar service), and if I didn't put my real name on the sending form (the information of which is available to the seller I believe), I would be unable to get a refund from Western Union if for some reason the buyer could not pick up the money.

As I said above, the reason I did this was because I wanted to protect my IRL identity.

I don't know this person and haven't looked at his posts. Based on the large number of password changes alone, I think he has probably sold his account, or is planning on selling his account. In order to sell an account, you need to change the password a number of times, and the repeated password changes might be a way to cover this up when the account is actually sold.

Unless you have knowledge of a password compromise, you generally do not need to change your password as long as it is sufficiently complex. Frequent password changes will lead to you using more simple passwords, and to forgetting your password more frequently.

I had stopped farming accounts earlier that year, and have not farmed accounts since then.

The purpose was to protect my IRL identity. Panthers52 was originally intended to be farmed when I created it, however it turned into an account I used to chat. I never took any steps to increase trust positive trust ratings on accounts I sold, although I did receive one DT positive trust rating because I pointed out a scam.

Honestly, that is not something that would bother me, as long as all obligations to me are followed. If I had reason to believe this had not been done to other people, I would privately warn you that your behavior is frowned upon by the community, and that it is ill advisable to continue that kind of behavior. I would not try to ruin your reputation over a single mistake.

When tomatocage was caught escrowing for himself, he was laughed at by haploid23 for getting caught, and no one batted an eye. This included scammers who were tagged by tomatocage who had an incentive to bring up any dirty laundry that might result in getting their tags removed.

You can say it is obvious to you that what I was doing was wrong, and that might be true. However I would honestly say I did not realize what I was doing was wrong at the time, and that is the truth. Tomatocage at the time was one of the most respected forum members, along with one of the most trusted. I don't think there is anyone comparable to TC today -- there are influential people, and people that receive a lot of merit, but these people in my view don't have the same type of standing that TC had.

It was supposed to explain that I did not have bad intentions. This was something that others did out in the open.

It was tomatocage. He was also caught doing this, and no one seemed to care. He also left himself positive trust, which is something I have never done. The above, along with the experience I posted lead me to believe this was an accepted practice. I have since realized this is wrong.

I said that I was mistaken..

It seems that I am mistaken. I received confirmation that the message was in fact delivered to Vod, according to Theymos.

My apologies.

There are no semantics games. I had addressed a PM to Vod and received an error message saying it was not sent to him because he had blocked PMs from me. Prior to making that post, I checked my outbox and confirmed that Vods name was not on the list of people that were BCCed on the message I sent.

The only way what I said would be false is if I sent the message to a secret alt of Vods. 

You should have an admin verify the authenticity of you receiving a PM from me with that title.

This is false, you were not sent a PM to visit this thread.

Last night, I reported about 20 posts, including 4 by SM herself that contain her a name. There are a bunch in the GAW thread that remain unhandled, it might be because it is such a massive thread.

You sent me an unsolicited PM asking me to admit that I didn't return the btc from TF, implying that if I admitted to this, you would remove my negative trust. When I refused, you started playing games.

IIRC, there are restrictions as to what can be modified on the version of SMF that theymos uses for this forum.

Based on his history, I have my doubts that he paid a 10th of that for the bitcoin he donated. The price was going up so fast around that time, it is possible he didn't even realize the value of what he was sending.

I have my doubts that anyone will become a donator in the future.

Copper memberships are approximately priced in dollars, and plenty of people are buying those memberships.

It is always possible the RV was stolen. As a citizen, I would not do anything to this person, other than call the police.

As I mentioned, I have not been following your alt threads for quite some time, and my comment is based on information that is over a year old (probably older).

Thank you.

I have no interest or intention of offering escrow services in the future. IIRC, several months after all this started, I was asked to act as escrow by someone that was what I assume was a scam attempt, and I turned down the offer. I reviewed by escrow thread and it looks like I acted as escrow in 2017 for a $5 trade. My escrow thread has reflected "closed" since March 2019, and I had not bumped since long before that.

edit: I also generally stay out of forum related drama, except in cases where it is very clear that one side is wrong. I may try to elicit information/facts for clarity/additional insight while staying neutral. My intentions are to continue doing the same

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As I mentioned, I do care about my reputation here. My actions were wrong and they wont happen again.

This is long overdue.


Thank you.

Vod was someone who I considered a friend in 2014/5. My interactions with him since then makes me believe he will never accept my apology, which makes me sad. My observations of his interactions with OgNasty makes me believe that he has difficulty letting things go. I would prefer to put all this behind me and move on.

No, my account is not sold (that is what he was implying).

I reviewed some of his recent posts, and he mentioned Rmcdermott927 leaving several times. I would be surprised if Laudanum is Rmcdermott927 though. He reminds me of CH, as he discusses a lot of the same things that CH talked about, but the posting style is at least somewhat different.

Thank you.

I do care about this forum and community. When all this started, I had thought some of the negative feedback would have gotten removed over time, as was common for things of this nature. Everyone here knows me as QS and don't really like the idea of being known as something else.

I lied in 2015 about being banned. I do not like to lie, and very rarely do so, including IRL. Not answering a question does not mean that answering a question truthfully would reflect negatively on me. All it means is that the question is not something I want to answer.

Pelosi awarding the house seat in Iowa to a democrat on January 3 would give cover to Republicans to vote for Trump on January 6. The GA special election is the day before, and if there are additional allegations of irregularities, there will be more cover for Republicans to vote for Trump.

I hope so too.

I have not been following your alt connection thread for some time now. If memory serves me correctly, you would sometimes use faulty logic when making connections.

Not that I can recall specifically, however it is possible that I noted what I believed to be a flaw in your logic when making a connection.


No.