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Old 6th Feb 2012, 11:51 AM   #1
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Default Enough of these 'scam' threads!

What's the point of them?
Someone scammed you? PM mods or admins, they will deal with the scammer, and ban him accordingly, or ask him for refund, in case they decide there's a room for that.

1. If person is banned for scamming, there is no need to warn anyone, he won't show up here, under the same nickname.
2. If person refunded you, then, he didn't scammed you.

Point should be, that anyone is innocent until proven otherwise.
With scam threads, people are loosing respect they've earned, and threads like that are damaging them, in case they aren't guilty.
That is irreversible, and mods, admins, should take more care about such cases, than allowing random thread creations about so called 'scams'.

And another time. Report a person who you think that scammed you to mods/admins. If there's any reasonable doubt, their selling thread should be closed, without any notifications visible in public. If it is proven that such person is guilty, mod knows the drill: either try to help person to refund, or ban, and delete thread. But in case person is not guilty, this will prevent throwing a mud on person that is clean.

By allowing users to post 'scam' threads, seller is already guilty, in eyes of majority. And in fact such threads raise other issues, like racism and similar.

Unless there are facts, in forms of screenshots of chat logs, bank statements, or whatever that can prove scam undoubtedly, that crap should not be allowed.

If you don't have anything smart to add, or to discuss on this matter, please, just read the thread, and watch what will others respond.

No flame, and no spam, PLEASE!

Oh, and BTW, those 'scam' threads are ruining WJ name. It looks like WJ is a place for massive gathering of scammers. Another reason, to not allow such threads.

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Old 6th Feb 2012, 11:59 AM   #2
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Point to post topics about scamers is that somebody from another forum or website can google scammer paypal ID or nickname and find something, this can safe somebody $.
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Partially agree with the thread.
A notification about the user who has scammed (after being confirmed by Staff of wJunction) could be helpful sometimes in dealing further with the user.

I agree with the part that one should not post a public thread against someone until proven. They must resolve the case with the staff
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:14 PM   #4
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well , i think that have been discussed before :
maybe there should be a section called FIB (or whatever) where only topic started and mods can see the topic and if the proof is valid the topic is moved into public or there is some kinda sticky topic with the scammers names and information .
i think this will reduce the spam and the wrong use of the "Scammer" word.
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:17 PM   #5
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After submitting proofs to mods, they can always make a topic, posting all proofs, and closing that topic, to prevent spam, so everyone can see that person - scammer in open. Even making a sticky topic, combining all such topics, closed for not wanted comments.
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:18 PM   #6
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yeah i agree with you & your 2nd point...
if anybody opens scam threads! than there will be spamy posts & unless posts
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:20 PM   #7
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This is just what WJ is. People cry scam all the time. It's funny when somebody orders a server and calls scam if it is not setup in 15 min lol It's one of the few English words they know. When some of those people leave, it will die down.
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:28 PM   #8
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There are 2 sides in this

We have all seen when some seller lets say lost power or pc broke.
Seller was offline for 12-24 hours and already there are threads popping up that seller scammed me.

All scam reports should be dealt with extreme privacy.
After the member has been proven to be guilty then staff should notify rest of us.

BUT...

Then again if there is a somewhat trusted member doing some sales and decides to scam then we would be in deep shit.
Think about it.
Member A scammed member B.
Member B reports it to staff.
Meanwhile member A can continue scamming as much members as possible.
Making public thread about it can prevent that.

So yeah its not as simple as you think.
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:30 PM   #9
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there should also be some WP , like Wd for hearing and solving these cases
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Old 6th Feb 2012, 12:32 PM   #10
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tooth / NIKE - If you post in this thread one more time, I'm going to ban you both permanently.
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