No, the "OldAdmin incident" as you put it, involved a manchester based crook who wanted to ID OldAdmin so he could threaten him and force closure of this site: he felt UKP were adversely affecting his own forum (and so losing him money). He'd already turned up at the door of a chap who ran a Preston-based forum and threatened his family. OldAdmin was able to keep his ID secret, despite the offer of substantial rewards for his name.
But there's a bigger picture you're clearly not getting: by the very nature of the way we post reviews here, collectively we're fucking about with the business models of a lot of sex workers, many of them affiliated with trafficking / drugs / other underworld gangs. They'd love to shut us down, and that could be through hacking, blackmail, threats.......
Hopefully for most of us the risk following a potential site hack is reduced because we signed up with anonymous throw-away e-mail addresses (you did didn't you?). Hopefully there's no trail linking your forum name to your real ID. If there is then you didn't think things out too well.......
Using a payment system which uses real identities (e.g. bank transfers) just creates another unnecessary vector which could be hacked and us all identified. It's not worth the risk
And here's another thought for you.....OldAdmin at one stage was hosting the forum database overseas on so-called "bullet proof" servers which supposedly couldn't be hacked. At one stage he told me he'd just moved to a Russian host....just imagine the risk that would create now. I've no idea where the site is hosted now (no need for any of us to know), but wherever it is there is always the risk of the local authorities demanding access.
Anonymity keeps us safe.
Angel, the owner of the now gone Manchester based forum was an absolute dickhead, acted the internet hardman and picked on people smaller than him.
UKP came along and blew the Manchester forum out of the water, forum traffic nosedived, punters jumped ship, followed by advertisers leaving and eventually it only had a handful of punters saying the same old boring stuff to each other about why it was so quiet, eventually the forum closed for good. A phoenix site did come out of the ashes but the last time I logged in to it, it was like a ghost town.
His head fell off completely when he couldn't get to Old Admin and he used to invent stupid stories on his forum about why he needed information on Old Admin.
Angel then moved in to being a pimp, something which he was always against until suddenly it was ok as he was making money out of it, that venture failed.
Then he moved in to giving massages himself, likely threw in the happy endings for free being the tosser he was.
Then there was the business when he sold the forum to a well known member of that forum and this forum, only to effectively steal it back off him.
Angel has a profile on here as well, which he logs in to every so often, I did send him a message a few months back, I think he will have read it but no response as of yet ...
