If I had to repay $10,000 from a $800 loan then I would most likely not attempt to repay, and I think most people are the same way. This is especially true considering that dank probably sold the bitcoin he borrowed and did not plan on earning in terms of bitcoin but in terms of fiat.

Yes the 52 BTC that was lent would be worth a lot more then $10,000 now but asking for that much back is simply not realistic. I think he would make an attempt to pay him back if squall were to make a reasonable settlement offer.

I wouldn't click on the link as it appears to be a malicious site according to

https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/b1d0e2ab7dbdfb1d9bc166df3419578dd597182d450769f1ffab49e26495f389/analysis/1416066890/

Account sales have been very slow recently. I have sold maybe between 10 and 20 over the last two weeks but only to a few repeat customers and at large discounts that I would not normally give; I only gave the discounts because they were buying accounts at once.

Recent prices:

• Potential member account but needing ~10 posts to get member status - .03 - .04 range
• Actual member accounts - .07 - .08 range
• Full member accounts - .12 - .13 range
• Haven't been able to sell any senior or hero accounts recently :/

I also sold them that low because most of my inventory is unproductive right now and posting is so slow that it is difficult to make non-spam posts with my lower level accounts so they can have enough posts to even potentially participate in a signature campaign.

I do believe that we will see higher paying signature campaigns in the future and account values will rebound. I have spent ~2.5 buying up senior and full member accounts at prices that would be considered a steal 5 months ago. The current environment is probably actually good for me because sellers will abandon their accounts by either forgetting their password(s), simply not checking back here to see that prices have increased so supply will hopefully decrease or increase less then it otherwise would. Also a lot of farmers are getting banned for spamming and BadBear seems to be getting better at weeding out spammers who spam across multiple accounts.

True, however I would think it would get somewhat annoying after a while. Although the forum seems to have a policy of responding with satire when invalid/crazy claims are made.
I don't see how the donator forum would be able to be moderated if the staff does not have access. I don't think the donator forum is active enough to warrant a dedicated moderator and the global mods are probably too busy to keep an eye on the donator forum without help.
Not 100% sure, however I did check all the VIP and donator accounts and did find several that had their passwords changed during the subject time frame, including two that matched the description of what the seller was offering, so I would say there was a good chance the account was actually sold.

It might as well be there as someone could easily check the modlog and search their "U#" and could find out they are banned.

I guess that 60 seconds might be a little high, but I think that 10 seconds is probably low as well. My calculation does leave out the "cost" of shit that the staff/mods take, especially the very efficient ones (just looks at how many threads that mprep has about him). Also buying a donator account would guarantee that you have access to donator forums, while reporting lots of posts would only increase the chances of becoming staff.

I would say that the "cost" of reporting enough posts to become staff would eventually decline to zero if you stay staff long enough as you would get a portion of 25% of ad revenue plus the ability to participate in PD

IIRC you had ~1500 reported posts with a 97% accuracy rate when you were promoted verses the ~190 posts with a 91% accuracy rate (although a good number of my "bad" reports was the result of someone else's misunderstanding of when certain posts should be deleted). Assuming that a staff position is guaranteed after 1500 reports (it is not) and that it takes 60 seconds to find and make a report then it would take ~1200 minutes, or ~20 hours. Assuming my time is worth ~$20 per hour then this would "cost" ~$400 or ~1 BTC.

I recently had the opportunity to buy a donator account for <.5 BTC but couldn't because I didn't accept the sellers offer before he sold the account to someone else, so it may be cheaper to buy a donator account, but then again earning a staff account would result in some level of income from their work.

If this was the case then he has a good number of two sentence posts (hence his claim of having more "useful" posts then he did before) on the first page of his post history; although there are also a good number of less then one sentence posts as well.

So there are ways to change your name without shelling out 50 BTC (plus staff apparently has access to the donator section as well). Maybe I should try to step up my reporting "game" a little bit

Can only administrators create a custom title or can lower level mods/staff do so as well? (I know that VIPs also have this ability)

I guess another way to change your username is to become an administrator.

(I did notice that you added a custom title)

EDIT: According to this thread your username was capitalized the same back in August. 

Donator status does not allow you to change your username, and the price to become a donator is 10 BTC.

If you were to donate 50 BTC to the forum then you would become a VIP and could change his username.

If the username is already taken then even a VIP account would not be able to help the OP

The amount that dank owes to squall is so great because squall made a bitcoin loan to Dank when the price was very low, and the price eventually skyrocketed. The fiat value of the bitcoin that dank borrowed from squall at the time the bitcoin was originally sent to him was ~$800.

Has squall indicated that he would be willing to accept a smaller amount in order to settle his debts?

He very much could not offer escrow/moderator services. In order to offer either of these services he needs to be trusted within the community and have participated in many trades within the community, which he has not done.

From the looks of it, he is trying to build up trust for him to be able to eventually scam, as evidenced in his initial offer to do a 10 BTC loan with the borrower sending the collateral directly to him. I don't think anyone will fall for his scam.

What is the username of your account that was banned?

How could you have gotten banned again? Your OP is from November 10th, and it says you were banned for 14 days. It is now 4 days later, which would mean you still have 10 days left on your original ban

I don't think this is unreasonable. He probably does not want to associate the fact that he is lending with his "main" account and probably doesn't have trust with his main account either.

Also: If the borrower follows this rule then the collateral will not be at risk as long as the borrower repays as agreed

If he is selling his account via a loan then it is not at a good price as very few people are interested in buying accounts right now due to the lack of sig deals.

Your loan request with macrotheminer was denied. I am just saying that the verbiage was almost identical to piccolo.

I am correct in saying that the amount you are asking to borrow is much too much and you will likely not be able to get anyone to lend you .2 for a senior member account.

what would stop you from recovering your account from btc-e?