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squat wrote

There's not even a small part of me that thinks ziq would delete raddle, nor would they fight a ban. They anticipated a potential ban in the process of apologising.

It's still a problem though when several people in this thread have voted no or abstained, explicitly because they fear that ziq could retaliate. But what you say is reassuring and I'll take your word for it.

For what it's worth, I'm not based in the US (out of curiosity though, why does that matter?) and I'd be willing to put stuff in my name and to pay the bills (I already host a couple of things like this anyway). Obviously there's no way in hell that I'm a trusted user, given that this is my third post ever and I only signed up a few hours ago. But let's see if I stick around and become invested in this place, perhaps with time I could gain people's trust.

Actually, you know what, I could even just rent out a server somewhere, pay up front for a really long length of time, and then just hand the login details for the hosting company over to an admin here without ever even logging in or setting up an OS on the server myself. Whoever here does set up the OS could set it up with full disk encryption and their own login details and I would never have the keys or passwords in the first place.

Obviously I would still be the contact for the hosting company and could log in to the management panel (or if not, at least convince them on the phone to reset the password for me or something). But even assuming I got in, I could wipe and/or reinstall everything, but I couldn't tamper with the site, and also whomever I hand over the account to would get an email notification if I logged into it, so there's a degree of accountability nonetheless. Basically I just sign up, pay some money, give the details away here, and "forget" about it, people here don't necessarily even need to trust me very much.

Maybe this discussion is for another place and time, but I'll leave this here for the record. If people want to have a conversation about this and they decide that they're interested, PM me and we can work out the details and then I'll get on it.

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