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Hi,

Just wondering about a point of etiquette here on bartertown.

I just received a PM which reads:
************
Hello,
The admin of Btown are conducting an investigation. Recently you had a trade with USERNAME DELETED.

His name and location seemingly match a known banned user.
Could you provide the name and address he provided you for the trade?
Any help would be appreciated.

NAME DELETED
*********

As far as I know, the person who sent this is not an admin or moderator, and has less than 20 trades here. Though I'm not sure how to tell a mod or admin from anyone else here, frankly.

I'd feel like a dolt for swallowing NAME's claim to be part of an investigation from the admins, and blithely violating USERNAME's privacy by providing an address to NAME. I checked the Bad Trader forum and could not find "USERNAME" anywhere.

On the otherhand, I don't want to inadvertently protect a scammer. If there actually is some sort of investigation going on from the admin level, I'd like to help.

Is there a main mod or admin whom I could contact to confirm that this 'investigation' is actually happening?

Thanks,

hey
You need to contact Linrandir

Cheers
Peace

Do what Peacemystic says.

But if you're looking for a quick answer, just look for the user's name @ the bottom of the main trading page. If it's in blue, they're not. If it's yellow or green, they're a mod.

Dur....I clicked on the 'moderators' link that appears next to each forum title, and there he was.

Heh, heh. Oops. Should have checked a bit more before posting this question I suppose. Thanks for everyone's quick replies though!

Sorry, NAME!

No worries. In case you're wondering, yes, we are investigating something. MOre details as they arise.

Wow, so much for trying to conduct and investigation stealthily.

Next time you get a strange PM like that, send a new Pm to one of the mods/admins..

Ie.
Linrandir
Morlock-Bloodletter
Alsiaie
Insidious

Or, of course, Me.

Plzkthnxbai!

Well, I did delete all the names involved. I am new here, and I didn't know how to find the mods - hence I posted here in the 'questions' forum about how to do that.

In my defense: on most message boards which I frequent, anyone who is a moderator or admin has their title clearly labeled under their avatar. Since I *didn't* see that under NAME's avatar, I became suspicious.

Judging by the frequency of posts to the bad trader forum, I figured there was *always* one or another investigation going on But I do sincerely apologize if I've compromised anythign. Now I know who the mods are, I will definitely PM them in the future instead of posting.

In fact, this will be my last post on the matter. I might suggest that the mods delete this thread actually, in case USERNAME hasn't seen it yet.

Actually you are fine.

these are more of a heads up FYI.

Hopefully nothing like that will happen to you again!

But in the meantime I will lock this.