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The past is obdurate
Sometimes it can be helpful when they gang up though. If one user says that a certain user is a scammer and other witnesses are there to confirm that said user is a scammer, then it helps other people better protect themselves. Wi-fi ratings on TBT don't cover all transactions that take place on the forums.
I have to disagree. I don't think 'ganging up' on anybody can ever be helpful. It's just not a kind thing to do, especially if the person who is being ganged up on is quite young. We all make mistakes sometimes. There was somebody on here not long ago who was selling a villager for tbt, I don't know if they ever actually had that villager or not as the person who was buying them said they were having to try and get them from the void. They paid in advance and the person spent those bells within a matter of minutes of them being transferred. The person who had bought the villager never got them from the void, and quite rightly wanted their tbt returned but it was of course too later. This then led to other users who had nothing to do with the situation ganging up on this kid for being a scammer. They weren't contributing anything to help the situation, they weren't offering to give the buyer back their bells, they simply were ganging up on this person and telling them how awful they were. The situation was resolved in the end as the buyer understood how upset the kid was about what they'd done. As far as I know, they got the bells back.
Nobody can tell me that the behaviour of people having a go at that kid was in anyway useful. It was just plain bullying. Nobody likes scammers or being scammed, I've had it done to me, but there are ways of dealing with things.