justinj0305, when you signed up to eBay, you ticked the "I agree" box in the User Agreement.
When you use the boards, an extension of that is that you agree to abide by the Community Content Policy. Among the prohibited actions is "Publishing personal contact information of any person in any public area of eBay, including emails, phone numbers, name, street address, etc." and "Including feedback or comments about other users" - the latter of which would be why the moderators edit user IDs that are posted for the purpose of naming and shaming.
There are some obvious reasons for this, including but not limited to:
- some buyers getting the user ID of the "bad seller" wrong, and thus potentially harming an innocent seller;
- some buyers turning their negative perception of a transaction into something more than it is, and pillorying the seller in public; or
- some sellers wanting to get rid of their competition by falsely claiming that a seller (their competition) behaved poorly to them (the pretend buyer).
If you keep on posting seller IDs here, moderators will keep on editing your posts, and it is possible that you will find yourself barred from the boards, either temporarily or permanently. You've made your point; if you try to keep hammering out the seller's username, you're almost certainly not going to accomplish anything further. Wouldn't it be best to quit while you're ahead, having said what you wanted to say?
It's not a matter of eBay protecting bad sellers, but rather, I think, eBay not wanting to deal with cases of complicity where a seller claims that their reputation was unfairly damaged.
