There are a large number of scammers and spammers on DP. Once they are banned, they create a new account and try to target shawn by giving his -rep and negative itrader! There are people that are this sad!
Yes, there are many scammers and spammers here. I am still waiting to get a fraudulent iTrader removed. I got it in December and it still has not been removed. It was an e-mail spammer that I reported. Before getting banned (happened the same day), he posted on an old thread of mine in the BST section and immediately left a negative iTrader. I am so pissed off about it and still waiting for it to be removed. Shouldn't there be a system in place to prevent those with 1 or 2 posts from giving an iTrader?
surely by definition if shawn were to remove his itraders he himself would be banned. that would be OK until ANY maintenance work would need done, at which point we would all lose our valuable little corner of the net, and that would be no laughing matter!
I made the mistake of commenting on a religious topic lol, and then pointing out another spammer he knocked me down a peg as well. I'm not to concerned with it, I try to make good contributions.