https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=320196Here's his profile.
Below is the overview for what happened. Edit: Sorry to DiamondCardz, to which this overview belongs to. This is hosted on freebitcoins.pw.
So one day PlanKton joins (Miner Direct)
minerdirect.org. He gets Global Moderator pretty fast as he built up trust with the admin by talking, etc. Now everything is fine and he does a good job for a while, but then he starts to start doing untrustworthy things.
First, he made his escrow thread with little to no WoT (Web of Trust). This instantly raises red flags and I contact him and get him to remove it. Then he went into the begging for loans phase. I denied all his loans, and in the end he got a 0.1 BTC loan from the Admin. It is then that this happens in IRC, about a day later - he states he is getting out of BTC as he lost the loan and his 1 BTC holdings to gambling.
Now here is where I stopped trusting him except under a facade, personally. Why did he need a .1 BTC loan when he had 1 BTC already? Why was he gambling with it? And now he had decided to apparently leave the BTC world.
But no, lo behold, somehow he gambled .001 BTC to .7 BTC. Good for him...except the chances of that are so slim that I doubt he did. But later, his car breaks down and he cannot get to his wife, kids, and whatever else he said. This was the phase where he decided to see if he could get more before he ran off. A common trick. This time both me and the Admin declined him. It was around this time that PlanKton was demoted from Global Moderator to MinerDirector (sectional moderator, basically) for being untrustworthy.
After this he basically made a thread saying "WTF" as he said he had been doing an excellent job. This was about a day before the hack. Once Admin explained why he had been demoted, that was it. PlanKton went to the Admin Control Panel (all staff have a limited version of the ACP but unfortunately full board access) and deleted everything. Then we backed up and now we are back to where we are now.
So what are we going to do now to try and ensure this never happens again? Personally, I want to administrate some groups so we can tier staff and force new staff to go through the tiers. No jumping because you're trusted, or any crap like that. You start at the bottom and you work your way to the top. People who can administrate Boards should be restricted to the Administrator rank - not Global Moderator - we do not want to risk this again, editing Boards can do so much damage. Obviously this means that Administrator will be basically an unattainable rank as you do not want to trust a lot of people with lots of power, as it creates liabilties.
Please do not sell him Bitcoin here. He is only gonna gamble it away and you will never get your money back.
If you could create an account and help us rebuild our community at
www.minerdirect.org, please do. We really need any help we can get. Thanks!
