Q: Should Lauda *really* be a moderator of bitcointalk A: no

[Quickseller]

It appears that Laurda is now attempting to extort money from suspected criminals and has admitted to doing so.

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This is Lauda from bitcointalk.org  (uid=101872), using the PGP Fingerprint CBB8 39C0 188B ADE8 A80C  90B2 F4E3 AD3C 52F9 9ADB as staked here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1159946.msg16464161#msg16464161.

Today is the 20th of January 2017. I, and a group of coin collectors have been running a deep investigation on the user Zeroxal due to his unusual behaviour regarding the acquisition and origin of funds that he has recently admitted to being in control of.
As a part of this investigation, I have created an agreement with the user Tman to send an 'extortion' message to Zeroxal requesting that they come clean, and send me a 'stake' in order to keep me silent. The agreement stated that the message should only be sent should we proceed to hand Zeroxal and all the information to the relevant authorities. The sole purpose of this action was never to acquire money, but rather to trap Zeroxal into reveal the final evidence required in order build a proper case against him.

Should any funds be acquired via this message, a mutual agreement will be made amongst the 'investigators' as to what shall be done with the funds. Under no circumstances will Lauda (or any other user) use these funds for personal gain. In the case of the required information not being rehanded over to the other investigators, the public and/or proper authorities when required, the user Lauda will be guilty of voiding the agreement with Tman and other investigators. By extension, they will therefore be guilty of extortion.

This message is timestamped via the last mined block (449202) at the time of encryption, carrying the hash:
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https://zerobin.net/?39b2a85a2d5d02e9#WCbZMnhqDOyQx5AQHQMOEB/I+W0NPnrexLx1g/aMOqo=

He refuses to give ma a valid explanation and claims me being a criminal without any proof.

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[achow101]

You got what you wanted. Lauda is no longer a staff member. You can lock this thread now.

[Vod]

You got what you wanted. Lauda is no longer a staff member. You can lock this thread now.

   Wow

This will hurt the forum.  Lauda was one of the most active staff members.

[botany]

You got what you wanted. Lauda is no longer a staff member. You can lock this thread now.

Ouch. So much for the results of the voting for the global moderator with Lauda coming second.

[1Referee]

It's a damn shame that Lauda is no longer a staff/moderator anymore. Lauda was the most active staff member that took care of most requests pretty fast. Exactly what this forum needed. Because of Lauda this forum has seen it's quality go up from horribly bad (and prevented it from going even worse), to something a bit more appropriate.

[botany]

It's a damn shame that Lauda is no longer a staff/moderator anymore. Lauda was the most active staff member that took care of most requests pretty fast. Exactly what this forum needed. Because of Lauda this forum has seen it's quality go up from horribly bad (and prevented it from going even worse), to something a bit more appropriate.

There can be no doubt that Lauda was indeed very active and that action on the BitMixer campaign really resulted in the amount of spam coming down. But the admins of this forum must have their reasons for removing Lauda as a staff member, which (unfortunately) I think will never be made public.

[Quickseller]

It's a damn shame that Lauda is no longer a staff/moderator anymore. Lauda was the most active staff member that took care of most requests pretty fast. Exactly what this forum needed. Because of Lauda this forum has seen it's quality go up from horribly bad (and prevented it from going even worse), to something a bit more appropriate.

There can be no doubt that Lauda was indeed very active and that action on the BitMixer campaign really resulted in the amount of spam coming down. But the admins of this forum must have their reasons for removing Lauda as a staff member, which (unfortunately) I think will never be made public.

You don't think it had something to do with the fact that lauda recently admitted to trying to extort someone?

[SaltySpitoon]

I've been making an active effort to lock threads in meta once they have reached a conclusion. If anyone has any reason why the thread should be unlocked, you are welcome to request that it be unlocked, and I'll happily do so. But Meta is one of those sections that spammers feel that they can hide their spam, and be outraged when their posts are deleted under the guise of "this is supposed to be a special section about the forum!".