Both parties in question actually said at the time that they would have sent first to me if they had known they were dealing with QS.

The below definition of a "sockpuppet" from urban dictionary is very close to how I would describe "sockpuppeting:
I have not used any alt account to support my own point of view, or my side in a dispute after the self escrow incident.

There was no deal with Lauda. I simply wanted to stop the fighting and bickering with Lauda (and other forum members), and wanted to move on. My presumption is that Lauda felt the same way.

If you are on this blacklist, I would suggest making many posts that are well thought out, over many weeks/months, and maybe your name will get removed, along with the neutral rating.

notbatman left after I gave arguments that he was unable to refute that the Earth is not flat. I am surprised that it took as long as it did for someone to make the points I made.

I might suggest using x dollars per month to repurchase seats and use them for giveaways.

My best guess is merit sources are chosen based on their merit distribution activities, and by how much theymos trusts the person. I am almost positive it is not random, and I would doubt it is in a first-come-first-serve order either.

There have been several merit sources take extended breaks from the forum in recent months, resulting in the actual merit from merit sources decreasing. It may be a good time to do another recalculation of sMerit that each merit source has and consider adding additional sources. 

I have noticed that Vod has a link to a website in his signature. This website has a number of blog posts that are talking about OgN. One of the blog posts says that OgNasty is referred to “Matt” throughout his blog. Another of the posts is titled along the lines of how “Matt” tried to have [Vod] killed. It previously only said “coming soon” with the address and phone number to the FBI field office in Phoenix, AZ. It now has a image of an alleged FB message that has a link to the Rip-off report article about Vod. The alleged message is from late 2019.

I don’t see how this would imply that anyone tried to have Vod killed. If anything, it would be a smear campaign.

This appears to be an attempt to get the FBI to investigate OgN, and probably amounts to something close to “Swatting”.

This happened over a year ago, and the correct course of action would be to call the police at the time. Otherwise, Vod should call the police today if someone tried to have him killed (I have seen no evidence of this). I don’t see why someone would wait a year to report something like this, and to report it on his own website. If there was real evidence to support this, it would be a major forum scandal.

I think it is pretty sad that other legendary forum members, and other long time forum members are not joining me in calling for Vod to get help. I think people are afraid of getting attacked (and harassed) by Vod, and if only one or two people join me, they probably will. If enough people join me in calling for Vod to get help, he wont be able to attack everyone, and maybe he will seek out help.

I would not trust the polling of approval ratings. The polls were far off in the 2020 election, and I have no reason to believe their accuracy has since improved.

Trump is not going to be tried while he is in office, and if he remains banned on social media, his grip on his base is going to deteriorate. There are plenty of Republican Senators who will not have to win a primary for 4-6 years, by the time which Trump will long be forgotten.

It is not scamming advice. It is advice that should improve your life and your mental health. I am sorry to say this in public, but there is clearly something wrong with your head, and you seriously need help. There is no reason to hold onto these petty disputes for this many years.

You should seriously get professional help. You need it.

I guess this turned out to be not true...

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.