Iota Testing on the IOTA chat.

They've get rekt because they have deal with the wrong guy, freezing isn't a good solution, Come-from-Beyond don't have to play the IOTA dictator that have the power to freeze any account.

Well, actually it doesn't matter if I'm right or not. The ultimate decision will be made by David (aka iotatoken), I'll just provide technical assistance in case if the freezing is possible.

I agree.

I'd feel sorry to see people losing money with frustrated iota deals, but such risk has always been very clear (the risk that the seller could eventually not deliver, disappear... the seller could even die - ! - and the the buyer would never receive his iotas). Obviously, this risk has even been priced, first of all...

...Still, it would be sad to see those deals going wrong. But messing with the solution of a "centralised intervention on the network", as proposed (e.g. CfB freezing accounts on the ledger, etc) would greatly hurt the "decentralised nature" of everything that we are doing here, IMHO...

If there is any good thing in it all, let's look forward to learning from the sad experiences we witness daily: as we did today with Ethereum and the DAO :/

Iota wasn't launched yet, so the case has a little related to (de)centralization.

Like CfB said, this tiny issue of helping out some people who made a dumb decision is entirely unrelated to decentralization and the other aspects of 'TheDAO'. This is so primarily because Ethereum has launched and is decentralized, IOTA hasn't, so IOTA is not meant to be 100% decentralized yet, it's still being developed by the company that sold the software, so until the official launch it is not 100% decentralized.
 
What CfB was referring to is the fact that by helping out a few people who made a mistake that they should never have made, we might actually hurt other people in the long term by not letting people learn the hardway, which is usually the only way people learn.

And to be sure: IOTA is not some political ideology movement for decentralization. It's tech that need to be decentralized in order to serve it's function as a trustless transactional settlement system in the emergent 'Economy of Things', but the decentralization aspect is nowhere near as important in IOTA as it is in Ethereum, where it is the chief feature.

You know a theft has happened, you have the stolen goods in your possession and decide not to give them back? It's your decision of course but if CH has disappeared and is nowhere to be found and the victims want justice they don't have many options left on who to sue.

Its a matter of mentality. When i make a mistake, that instantly costs me money , i never try to get that money back. I enjoy the fact i paid for it, because it makes me learn the hard way and act smarter in the future.

When someone decided to trade without escrow, they are being irresponsible and doing something stupid. I cant respect anyone who does that and then asks for help, after lots of us warned here 20 times not to buy without escrow.

I also have the gut cryptoknightt has oversold. Because he is not posting anymore, and ive known of many users who have treated with him personally in private these last days, and he has been trying to sell at unusual low rates (11-14x) with no escrow.
Sorry if im mistaken.

For the 3289742389734298 time, DONT TRADE WITHOUT ESCROW

Yea not to mention how much Child_Harold was harassing me and CfB almost daily in his drunken stupours. When someone is harassing the creators of the tech and then offer to trade without escrow you should be very skeptical.