I may have crossed some lines in pretending to be banned, however I also believe that the investigation to confirm that I was or was not banned is against forum policy (there was zero money that was claimed to be missing and there was zero money that was claimed to be stolen).
Quite the opposite. I'm the only one who can and will (besides theymos) investigate suspicious activity, and several things about that were suspicious. Two off the top of my head.
A. I was unaware of you being banned, which was odd.
B. Suspicion of ban evasion, this is something I check quite often.
I also skim the modlog from time to time, check recent bans, handle ban appeals, and other things. It's my job to know what goes on, it has to be done due to not disclosing mod identities wrt actions taken.
I'm not sure what money has to do with it. You being banned (or not) was a forum administration issue, not a scam investigation.
I think it was against forum policy to disclose the absence of a ban as the forum has a general policy of not disclosing when someone is banned.
In general I tend to not publicize bans. The exception being when the user publicizes it themselves, hence the many threads in meta where bans are openly discussed. Additionally, I was unwilling to help you deceive other users, particularly when it was related to a scam accusation against you.
I also think that it was against forum policy to disclose this account as being as QS alt (which was at the very least de-facto done with the removal of QS from BB's trust list - this is assuming that such disclose was not done via Personal Message or otherwise....I have no evidence of this, however my initial thoughts after seeing the timeline between when QS was removed and when you posted that if QS was removed then QS=P52 and if QS was not removed then QS=!P52, was that such disclose was made). There were alternatives to outright removing QS from BB's trust list that would not have involved disclosure.
No, I didn't tell anyone it was your alt. You don't qualify under my criteria for that. Escrowing for yourself, to me, is not a scam. I would file it under unethical. I removed you before that post was made, about an hour before I pm'ed you initially.
