Fraud communities are now subject to new restrictions and standards : Fraud | Torhoo darknet markets

I'm taking the time here to address the community regarding a pressing issue with Fraud related subs, which has plagued Dread since its inception. It is no secret that I am not fond of fraud and if I was to have acted on opinion then it would have been banned from the start, or later prohibited. I have done more than enough now to house fraud vendors/buyers on the platform and the cons outweigh the pros in this situation (did that just turn into a pun/double meaning?).

For too long these subs have been left out of my sight and I've possibly been ignorant towards it, relying on the Moderators of these communities to handle things in line with how I'd expect it to be moderated, but without ever communicating them expectations. It has recently become more and more apparent that a change is needed, after multiple contraversies with these subs and past moderators who had to be removed and now, as you can expect from this category of products and services, scams. Fraud is always inherantly going to open more avenues for scams to occur here, so the options we have had to consider have been either a complete ban, or something more in line with the standard of the DNM subs, which I think should have always been the case.

As of this moment, I have limited multiple Fraud related subdreads to require approval on all posts. Until this point, anyone could create a new account and immediately post an ad for a product or service within the Fraud community, completely unhindered for the most part. This has and would have continued to lead to users having their money stolen, which is maybe ironic or what some would consider as deserved for attempting to purchase something to defraud someone in the first place. The thing here is that this shouldn't be happening so easily and it massively promotes direct deals within Dread which is in violation of the site-wide rules.

I will be discussing this with current moderators of these communities and how they should handle things going forward, which will likely give them a large work load, but it seems to be the best option at this time. There is no solution where everyone wins, but hopefully this makes a big difference here.

Going forward, all subs that fall into the Fraud category will be required to approve all new posts. Ad posts should only be approved for CONFIRMED market vendors, which subdread mods will have to verify. Anyone offering anything should have no excuse to not be on a market, which allows users to then research feedback for the vendor to determine their legitimacy as well as having the option to use escrow when dealing with them.

I will now need to have a full list of affected subs compiled so I can apply these regulations there also, as of right now the subs that have been amended are:

https://torhoo.cc/go.php?u=TDJRdlJuSmhkV1E9#
https://torhoo.cc/go.php?u=TDJRdlJuSmhkV1E9#Resources
https://torhoo.cc/go.php?u=TDJRdlEyRnlaR2x1Wnc9PQ==#
https://torhoo.cc/go.php?u=TDJRdlJtOXlaMlZ5YVdWeg==#

Thank you for your understanding, if things seemingly get out of hand again with these subs, it will be the final time, this is a final warning. Any subdread mods who do not want to deal with this new work load, feel free to leave your role, I understand this may not be what you signed up for with it, but it is absolutely necessary.