Better open up wide for the shit sandwich you are about to eat Nubbins. Don't worry, it is party sized so all of your puppets friends can have a bite too.

Qualified how? Because they said so? Do these so called qualified people also own a laser engraver?  I am not an outsider to laser engraving or woodworking. I have a hard time believing that any of these so called experts know enough about intricate hand carving, and have enough skill themselves to be able to say for certain a piece was not hand carved just by looking at a photo of it. Just because they are themselves unskilled is not proof that others are incapable. So in short your so called experts are worth about as much as a hot steaming pile.

I am also the owner of a 40w laser engraver.

Ok, I see this is about me now. Interesting. Don't mind the fact that VOD was actually abusing the trust system to silence me, but don't let that stop your little mob here. My complaint about VOD had nothing to do with Tradefortress, but it works for you to make it sound that way

Another professional example of how to act by the professional staff.

Now the personal attacks on people pointing out your overreaction? Very adult. You are right, what would I know about the history of this forum, I have only been here since 2011 (2 years before you). All that other bullshit you just said is fluff to distract from the fact that you are slowly realizing that you probably fucked up, and the mob is starting to look at you. Enjoy your own personal inquisition.

First of all, YOU HAVE NOT PROVEN ANYTHING. You have strung together a bunch of speculation, assumptions, and accusations with almost zero factual backing and used it to create a mob. This isn't how disputes are arbitrated, this is how children act, and regardless of your premise being right or wrong it IS IN FACT DESTRUCTIVE TO THIS COMMUNITY. Imagine for a second that you are not infallible, and perhaps you are in fact mistaken, would you still find your behavior acceptable? No matter how convinced you are of your own conclusions, YOU ARE NOT INFALLIBLE.

In less than 24 hours you have managed to incite a mob against WC before he even had an opportunity to provide any countering evidence. Even IF you are right, YOU ARE WRONG. You "taking him to task" is little more than you satiating your compulsive desires for retribution, NOT an honest debate about the subject. THAT is the problem. Unfortunately this mob mentality is endemic on this forum, and it is driving away long term productive members because they would rather not take a chance of being caught up in this sort of childishness that people such as yourself seem to think is ok because "scambusting".

At this rate all we will have left here on the forum are trolls, scammers, and mobs. I am watching all the actual contributing members flea from this sinking ship of degeneracy that has become Bitcointalk. Have fun ruling over the scorched rat infested ruins after you drive anyone decent away just so you can put on a plastic badge for a few minutes and play scambuster.

It doesn't exist. You should know the rules because the staff do. After all, if there was a list of rules, they might be forced to obey them.

I am an owner of a 40w laser engraver, and an immediate family member of mine is a professional woodworker, so I am familiar with most of the tools involved here, yet none of the evidence you have produced as of yet is 100% proof of anything. One thing you need to keep in mind is YOU ARE NOT INFALLIBLE. You may be 100% assured of your conclusions, but that doesn't mean you are 100% right. The fact that you seem to be willing to leave no room for your own error and inject the extra vitriol that no one would welcome, scammer or not, demonstrates to me your own inability to reason. In short you are unnecessarily muddying the waters of what my or may not be an accurate scam accusation to satiate your own emotional compulsions. This addition of emotional content makes it harder for ALL ACCUSERS, as well as ALL ACCUSED, even innocent ones.

Arkansas Takes Away 7 Homeschool Children  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=931376.0

You yourself are injecting a lot of hate and childishness into this. Lets assume for the sake of argument this is not a scam, would you expect him to respond positively to you in this case? You aren't just pointing out a potential scam here you are creating a shitshow along with personal attacks, insults, emotionally motivated posts, and mobs. If you had managed to leave all of this out I might be agreeing with you. However at this point because of the way you handled this I am inclined to give Woodcollector the benefit of the doubt just based on your inability to keep this a fact based argument. In accusing members around here, especially productive and or trusted ones, the burden is also upon you to remain professional in your accusations.

Regardless of how this turns out, this thread is sad. This forum has AIDS and its own immune system is eating it alive. Mobs are great fun, when you are holding a torch. Everyone is so thirsty for retribution no one is interested in facts. Soon it will be your turn.

So... has anyone here complaining even TRIED to open a thread exposing these users? If not stop crying, and DO SOMETHING about it rather then just demanding the removal of features people actually use.

The government should have no involvement in marriage period, including heterosexual marriages.

I can confirm this is also largely the case within the US as well. There is currently a lot of push here to remove the option for parents to choose to home school their children. In places where it is not specifically outlawed, many parents that home school their children are subjected to exponentially increased scrutiny. Many people don't know it, but upon a birth certificate being issued by the county of birth within the US, the parents are in effect making the child's legal person property of the county.

In effect all children are property of the state, not property of the parents as one might assume. Even into adulthood, unless this contractual entanglement with the county is nullified at the age of 18, the individual remains a ward of the state. This is the primary mechanism and claim to ownership the family courts use here to extricate children from their parents OUTSIDE the rule of law, because it falls within the realm of contract/maritime law, and they reside over the issue as a matter of contract law rather than common law.

Basically IMO, this mentality is a global push to force the socialization/indoctrination of children by requiring they participate in it by law, or by selective enforcement of the law. The concept of children being property of the state is at the core of socialist tenets, and it is a growing threat to the family unit world wide. The state wants to make sure its chattel property is properly indoctrinated and compliant, and the CPS system is just another way to mandate this.

I agree with this conclusion as I have personally experienced the results of this on about every level possible, as you described.

I have been pointing out the flaw in the staff/mods/admins getting involved in trust disputes for some time. They are often bias because they are quick to remove some users and heavily resist the removal of others within their clique which are clearly serial abusers. Additionally anyone can just make a post and rally a mob with little or no evidence creating lots of infighting amongst the community's MOST trusted members. In stead of letting the system be used as publicly purported, as a decentralized system of trust, it has become a centralized trust cartel where some users are more equal than others. The system was designed so that if individual users on the default trust are abusive, the people who placed them there are incentivized to remove them as risk of harming their own reputation. 

Rather than letting those users make those choices, Theymos, as well as others on the level 1 default trust have gotten into a habit of getting personally dictating who should do what with their own trust ratings at the lower trust levels. This transforms the supposedly decentralized trust system into a top down centrally controlled trust pyramid, where no one else is allowed to have any position of authority within the trust system unless Theymos and his level one selections approve of it.

In my personal case when I was removed from the default trust, canaryinthemine did not remove me from his trust right away. Theymos did not agree with this, and rather than choosing to let the system operate as designed and publicly purported, he added an entirely new feature, called "trust exclusions" so that he could again, from a position of central authority dictate how the trust system works, so that no one else could make any choices within the trust system counter to his own without consequence. In effect the trust exclusion negates any trust from displaying for people when they trust someone who trusts you, and also trust someone within the default trust.

Effectively this is a backdoor way for people with high rank within the default trust system to nuke actual earned trust ratings from users that are on lower levels of trust, and the trust exclusion cascades down thru all lower levels of default trust, as well as anyone who trusts him directly. Seeing as no one will ever outrank Theymos's trust rating, it is effectively impossible for anyone to ever work to correct the situation because there is in effect a permanent cap on the trust of the excluded user.

In summary, all of this strife and argument lately over default trust users and their ratings is a DIRECT RESULT of Theymos and other highly ranked individuals within the default trust attempting to maintain complete centralized control over what is purported to be a decentralized system. They claim it is a decentralized, unmoderated system, but then when some one has an opinion they disagree with as far as its use they have no problems making sure the user is neutralized from a centralized position of authority. The price for their demands of complete centralized control is that the forum's most trusted users are now fighting amongst themselves and destroying ACTUAL LIVING TRUST NETWORKS simply in order to preserve centralized control over the illusionary, virtual, and superficial red and green trust ratings with debatable benefits. Theymos wants to have his cake and eat it to, and we are all now paying for it.

This is not true. Absolutely nothing is stopping you from posting in meta, scam accusations, or the individual users trust ratings in order to alert others to their abuse. It is not appropriate that a legitimate and useful tool be removed just because some people who would probably get robbed any way MIGHT be fooled because if it. Ultimately it is up to the individual to use their best judgement. If the individual is unwilling to take the time to review the person(s) they are entrusting with their funds, it is ONLY A MATTER OF TIME before they are robbed. No amount of rules, scambusting, or precautions will ever change this.

Just wanted to confirm this so it is a matter of public record by request of the buyer