I'm almost certain this is somebody's alt account though because they started making contest predictions with their 2nd post. Kinda obvious.
The suspicion of an alt-account is quite logical.
It seems that this persona was not actually created for actual forum participation but mainly for the convenience of lending or signature campaign.
For someone presumably living in Norway, well there's no proof for that, an amount of $700 shouldn't be a goal to pull a rug. That doesn't make much sense to me, risking reputation of his account and participation in signature campaign (currentI didn't verify if he's still in there and future).
Depending on how deep @Slissy is in gambling, his irrational behavior could've many reasons, none of which I know. I agree that his sudden disappearance looks quite odd with respect to his loan responsibilities.
For someone in Norway decision to rug pool for this little money is even more foolish in terms of risk versus reward,

But if he was addicted to gambling to an extreme level then he might have taken out these loans in a bid to recover his loss. Maybe he's not in his right mind in that situation, so he might not have made the decision to disappear rationally.
If you dig into the sashan thread, you'll find more cases like that. High-risk loans that drag on—he even grants new ones for larger amounts before the first one has been fully repaid—things like that.
It's not a bad idea for you to start this thread, but I think it should have been the person involved—in this case, sashan—who started it. Although the lenders usually wait much longer—like another half a year since the guy disappeared from the forum—to start threads like this one, I guess they're hoping for some kind of miracle.
When main lender is silent, someone has to raise flag for the safety of community. Nowadays many people take loans privately. There is no guarantee that he will not try to cheat another user privately.
Edit:
Done, thank you for the nudge. Had not been aware of much until now. Dealt personally with Slissy before on an active gambling channel, nothing suspicious really on his post history, if I recall and others might, we convinced him to sign up to the forum precisely to participate in contests.
Thanks for taking such quick action and removing him from your trust list.
It's interesting that some of you were bringing him to the forum mainly for the contests. That explains why he started giving those contest predictions in the first place, which nutildah noticed.
If he backs out again or if shasan posts an update on the refund, I'll update this thread.