I did not make any inferences, I said what I did in order to justify my position and the position of Silk Road that vendors are entitled to keep a blacklist if they so choose, just as buyers are entitled to keep a blacklist. It is an informal list - not something supported by Silk Road. We do not limit people's freedom of speech so there is nothing that we can do in this instance regardless of whether one or more people have an entirely subjective view on whether or not a vendor adding a buyer's username to the blacklist constitutes a threat / blackmail. To answer your question, it is not my place to draw the line between freedom of speech and threats / blackmail in regard to a vendor blacklist of troublesome usernames. Neither of you know whether motek's username is on that list or not meaning that you are basing your entire argument on an assumption. What motek says is one thing - what is actually provable is another. I'm not calling motek a liar, but I am stating that you cannot take forum PM's as being factual because they are simply re-posts of other information; that information is easily edited before it is sent on. I am a forum moderator and I have sent the issue up the chain, receiving no response. I did my part, doing as much as I could to ensure that it was seen by an administrator, but it is up to motek to communicate with SR Support regarding this. SR Support are experiencing backlogs dealing with messages so if he has not yet been asked for details by any member of the support staff there is nothing that I can do. I appreciate that you are speaking in a general sense, but your comment "Now please take this seriously." was quite clearly directed at me given the sentence before it was: "Libertas, put yourself in Motek's position." If there is an issue with staff addressing the situation, that issue should be taken up with the staff that have responsibility for it. Libertas