Bones although we have had a few arguments I do not think you are as unfair as the others so i ask you to be sensible about this issue.
The FACT thule has request theymos look at the original PM is enough to suggest that HE BELIEVES they exist.
I think red trust in light of this is completely wrong. Please explain how you see it other wise.
AFAIK, libel is usually handled as a civil matter. I strongly believe that this allegation has far less than a 50 % chance of being truthful.
I see no way for thule to have found this information if suchmoon claims there is no dox anywhere else.
Simply researching with Google or looking through SMs post history will reveal the info contained in the screenshot. Thule seemed to have no difficulty providing a link to one of the threads.
Please be sensible he would not have asked Theymos to investigate this just to fall flat on his face if it were immediately found to be a spoof.
All we have is Thule's word that he asked Theymos. I give this as much cred as "the dog ate my homework" excuse. By the way, Themos isn't going to reveal an "anonymous source" IP without that person's consent. Thule will have to convince his "source" to cooperate in some way.
If this blows up and it turns out suchmoon has stolen some persons money or miner then it will look very bad if the person bringing this to light was red trusted along the way considering he is calling on you dts and theymos to help him get to the bottom of it.
The negative comment will be removed if this allegation becomes much more substantiated. Hell, if the allegation becomes rock solid against suchmoon, I might even make it a positive. as I said before, I'll eat my hat avatar if that happens.
It is completely illogical and would be stupid for him to call for theymos to confirm at all let alone of his own accord so early on in this debacle.
It simply does not make any sense for a person to believe thule sent himself this message. His actions are compelling evidence this was sent to him by someone else.
Compelling? I don't think so at all. Let's revisit what some of our other peers have already posted.
If this is fake, and so far, all signs point in that direction, this will be harmful to the community and will only make it easier for someone in a similar situation to scam in the future as these frivolous claims cause future claims to be taken less seriously.
False allegations hurt everyone. Massive amounts of time are wasted and the community learns to ignore these kinds of complaints as a result of the boy who cried wolf syndrome (is that a thing?).
There are only two logical steps forward here.
1) Have the original PM authenticated.
or
2) Lock this thread.
As most people know, these two peers aren't exactly BFF with suchmoon. Claiming you got your information from an anonymous source is no defense for libel. My red tag will remain in place until I'm convinced this allegation is more likely than not to be true. So far, it isn't.
