Most honest forum user

[airfinex]

Who do you think is the most honest forum user? And why?

[TryNinja]

I think I would trust LoyceV the most. Long history of being a reasonable person.

[Little Mouse]

There are many including LoyceV, yahoo62278, Hhampuz, The Pharmacist, AB De Royse777 and more whom I would trust with significant money.
But if I had to name one user only, I would say it's suchmoon.

I trust him the most because of his long history here and especially his action to save potential scam when Gleb Gamow account was on sold- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4476583.msg40231840#msg40231840

Can't remember now how much he spent to acquire this account as I read this long ago. It could be one of the biggest scams if a scammer would have access to that account. suchmoon purchased the account to save the community.

[Apocollapse]

I don't understand why people mention the "trusted" user when @OP ask the "honest" user.

For me, the most honest forum user is Vod because he's the only DT user who brave enough to leave negative feedback to theymos, if he's not honest, he will not give negative feedback because most people are afraid with someone who have higher positions/titles.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Who do you think is the most honest forum user? And why?

Well before its satoshi but since its inactive now well I go for LoyceV and DmdrDmdr these fella are hell of a good guy. Honest is simply like a trusted one so I believe my vote goes to the two of them. But seriously theres a lot of notable users to mention.

[Findingnemo]

Most of you guys will go with the known trusted users but let me get you a hidden gem. A newbie who made only 5 posts until now but got +7 green under his profile for the very one reason which is being honest and you can see that theymos mentioned the word honest as well.

User : EZ0010

Reason:

In this situation it turned out we had two dummies: owlgames sent the BTC incorrectly to the forum, and then yesterday I sent his refund to the wrong address. I'd been referring to my previous notes on how to do the refund correctly, and I sent the BTC to the last person who overpaid, since their address was still in my notes and I forgot to change it this time. (Now I've rewritten these notes to remove addresses...)

I thought there was little chance of getting the BTC back, since the last person who overpaid looked fairly anonymous, and in any case they were probably using an exchange address or something. So this morning I refunded owlgames properly in a second transaction, and I expected to just eat the cost. But surprisingly, the person who got the random $1000 I accidentally sent, EZ0010, returned the BTC ~immediately. Thanks to him!

The lessons:
 - There are good, honest people in the world.

[Shishir99]

Nobody knows who is the most honest one as there is no way to check if someone is honest or not. You can simply lie on the forum and no one would be able to verify that if it cannot be verified from the internet. I was influenced by Apocollapse's post and figured out that his point make sense. Why are we mixing Trust and honesty? If you ask me whom I would trust, there are several forum members whom I can trust with almost anything like money and information. Probably LoyceV is the most trusted one as he has a long forum background. There are several more like Yahoo, nutildah, lovesmayfamilis, and DdmrDdmr. I would like to remember o_e_l_e_o as well because he was one of them. There are a lot more.

[Sebas.tian]

There are many honest forum users but I will just mention some here, The pharmacist, Hhampuz, cryptopreneurBrainboss, lovesmayfamilis, loyceV,  Yahoo62278, little Mouse and AB de Royse777 but the most honest among them all is theymos because his honest has done a lot of development into this forum.

[LoyceV]

I don't understand why people mention the "trusted" user when @OP ask the "honest" user.

I had to Google the difference:

Trust means having faith in someone or something. There doesn't have to be any proof of trustworthiness. Honesty is telling the truth

That makes sense.

Nobody knows who is the most honest one as there is no way to check if someone is honest or not. You can simply lie on the forum and no one would be able to verify that if it cannot be verified from the internet.

You make a good point. You can't verify if something is true, but if it's not, you may be able to catch someone in a lie. I've mentioned it before in the context of mixers: if you catch someone in a lie, you can never trust him again.

I'm not nominating anyone. I'm pretty sure we only see what people want us to see.

[shield132]

It's hard to say because I think there are many honest members but I didn't have a deal with them.
Btw I am 100% sure that the most honest and trustworthy person on Bitcointalk is minerjones. Not only honest but this guy is a real gentleman. I appreciate everything he has done for me. He has done more for me than what I have paid for him.

[logfiles]

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5211434.0

[suchmoon]

There are many including LoyceV, yahoo62278, Hhampuz, The Pharmacist, AB De Royse777 and more whom I would trust with significant money.
But if I had to name one user only, I would say it's suchmoon.

I appreciate it... and vehemently disagree LOL. I'm absolutely certain there are users on here that are much more deserving of that title than me.

I trust him the most because of his long history here and especially his action to save potential scam when Gleb Gamow account was on sold- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4476583.msg40231840#msg40231840

Can't remember now how much he spent to acquire this account as I read this long ago. It could be one of the biggest scams if a scammer would have access to that account. suchmoon purchased the account to save the community.

Gleb/Bruno was a friend. I tried to help him out because he needed money at the time, and being able to prevent the account from getting sold to some scammer or shitposter was more of a side effect, although it did have a lot of sentimental value.

Honestly (no pun intended) I don't even remember the amount. Probably around BTC0.1 but I may be off by an order of magnitude. I didn't post the amount publicly at the time, not sure if Bruno ever did.

[icopress]

Any honesty is measured first and foremost by numbers. And here's what the numbers say about yahoo62278.

Baryom

2018-11-03

I sent him 39.4 BTC instead of 0.394 BTC for a signature campaign payment. (My mistake obviously) He returned me 39.005 BTC as soon as he saw that : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3a9248a8b02038e237569c3bab0faa674f11575de97bc0dee7ccb307e121b10f We are talking about $250,000. Thanks a lot.

[examplens]

Any honesty is measured first and foremost by numbers. And here's what the numbers say about yahoo62278.

Baryom

2018-11-03

I sent him 39.4 BTC instead of 0.394 BTC for a signature campaign payment. (My mistake obviously) He returned me 39.005 BTC as soon as he saw that : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3a9248a8b02038e237569c3bab0faa674f11575de97bc0dee7ccb307e121b10f We are talking about $250,000. Thanks a lot.

Yes, this is a great example.

In discussions like this, I am always reminded of user EZ0010, even though he was just registered, he returned the wrongly sent funds by theymos. It wasn't a large amount, but it was about a person who didn't have a single post at that moment, without any reputation, so returning the money was a pure matter of honesty.
edit: this case https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5378231.msg58800558#msg58800558

I appreciate it... and vehemently disagree LOL. I'm absolutely certain there are users on here that are much more deserving of that title than me.

It is very questionable for most of us how well we know each other, considering that assessments are made based on some forum discussions.

[Russlenat]

The honest ones are usually the ones handling the money, and they’re often the campaign managers.

I think the biggest campaign in the past was Chipmixer, which was managed by DS. He must have handled a lot of money on a weekly basis since the payouts were weekly, though I can't access the spreadsheet anymore. According to the campaign:

Sr. Member, Hero Member, Legendary, and Staff earned $6 per post, with a max of 50 posts per week.

I can't remember the exact number of participants, but I recall there were quite a few. So, let's say 50 users, all maxing out every week—that’s $6 x 50 posts x 50 users, which equals $15,000 per week. But even if it was around $10k per week, that’s still a lot, not to mention his own pay as a campaign manager.

In my opinion, he’s probably the most honest guy considering the amount of money he was handling. Even though he’s not active anymore, he’s one of the most respected people on the forum. Plus, he had a lending service with very low interest rates and was understanding when people asked for extensions. For me, he’s definitely one of the most trustworthy.

[KingsDen]

I don't understand why people mention the "trusted" user when @OP ask the "honest" user.

For me, the most honest forum user is Vod because he's the only DT user who brave enough to leave negative feedback to theymos, if he's not honest, he will not give negative feedback because most people are afraid with someone who have higher positions/titles.

The difference between trust and honesty is not much. Someone must be honest before they'll be trusted by another person.
The case of Vod neg tagging theymos is not honesty. You can call it bravery instead. Vod tagging theymos doesn't make him honest and hence theymos dishonest.

Still in this same context, it is even more correct if we say theymos is the most honest, because he created a system that could even hurt him, which many of us cannot do. We would rather make our profile immune to negative tags.

[LoyceV]

Any honesty is measured first and foremost by numbers. And here's what the numbers say about yahoo62278.

I'd argue that makes him trustworthy. We don't know if he's honest. You can't know if I'm really married, or made it up for OPSEC reasons. And I don't think that matters online, we can be anyone we want to be.

If being honest means you don't lie, social interactions can get awkward. Lying is a social construct, and many people wouldn't even call it being dishonest. Example: "I love what you did to your hair!". Lol. What I'm thinking might be: "You look ridiculous, but I'm not going to say that to your face because there's nothing to be gained by being honest about it".

[SatoPrincess]

Most of you guys will go with the known trusted users but let me get you a hidden gem. A newbie who made only 5 posts until now but got +7 green under his profile for the very one reason which is being honest and you can see that theymos mentioned the word honest as well.

User : EZ0010

I remember EZ0010 very well. He was nominated in Bitcointalk Community Awards for  Discovery of the year category and came 2nd place. His honesty is outstanding and surprised the whole community, he could have just disappeared with $1000 in his pocket and never look back but he didn’t. I don’t know where this user is rn, I’d have love to see this account active on the forum.

[dkbit98]

It's probably easier to find most dishonest users in forum, but members with long history and good reputation are usually more honest, generally speaking.
Most honest user would be someone who always speaks the truth about anything, and that can be controversial sometimes.

[Hamza2424]

There are many members here on forum I admire, and honesty is not something we can measure, but sometimes people do mishandle things a bit, some do it intentionally and some do it UN-intentionally so from actions and our interaction we can make a perception about someone, for me a person who guided me in hard times, and local interaction and his behavior within the community. I've found that he's a deserving person to be trusted, although he's been quite inactive for a long time and marks his presence once to twice a month in the local thread whenever you need his guidance he's available.

Haha it might sound like buttering, I've not seen any of such kind thread before but every single word of mine is based on my personal experience with him, and after so much suspense as the climax scene his name is shahzadafzal (haha I was just trying portray it as announcing the result announcement don't mind).

If they visit this thread, I'm sure 90% of my community members will agree with my words.