[Bobo Fett]

I can certainly understand why, since it seems in Mike Haven's absence it was being overrun by scammers (much more so than usual).

Unfortunately, it was done without explanation, and as a result, the Zoo is now going to be overrun with multiple threads by people looking for trades. It looks like Mat made a post in the thread when he locked it, but then deleted it. If there's been a decision to stop the thread until MH's return (I assume he is returning?), then someone should say so.

I know that thread must take an extraordinary amount of MH's time, but I think it's a great resource for the 2+2 community. I'm lucky enough to be living in the Great White North where we're still allowed to move money around easily, so I have no need for the thread myself. Being a Zoo regular, I do try and help out spotting the occassional scammer just the same. It would be a shame to see the trading stopped, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happened one day.

There's about 3 or 4 posters there causing most of the trouble right now. callerid has actually admitted to scamming, and should be banned...and it seems mynameisslime might be the same person.

In summary, I think a prominent announcement of some sort needs to be made in the Zoo explaining why the thread was locked and what the plans are, callerid should be banned for admittedly scamming, and mynameisslime should go as well if he IP matches to callerid. The new trading threads have already started, and it's only going to get worse over the next few days.