CAP_Freak is the actually the poster-boy example of this - when I purchased stuff from his ill-fated for sale thread, I had no clue he'd been on the probation list several times previously. If I had known, there's not a chance I would have purchased anything from him ...
Have to agree strongly with this statement. Quite a few of us bought books from CAP_Freak with no idea he had been on the list multiple times.
So our only option is while someone is throwing wonderful books up in a thread of hungry buyers that I am trying to compete with, I have rush back to the Probation thread and use the broken search function to find out if I want to buy from a seller. By the time you sort through all the pages upon pages to confirm they are solid sellers, many items will be gone. Or, you buy them, have a problem with the seller, and then folks point you to an area of the Probation thread that is over a year old and state "Didn't you know they were a problem before?"
Let's make this easier to refer back to, be fair with the entries, and from all this super work over the past few weeks feel more secure we have the references we need.