I'm glad we all have differing opinions honestly. This site wouldn't be what it is if everyone agreed on everything. It's well moderated and I feel a close knit place. We're mostly all here for the same thing, beautiful watches, and friendship and gaining more knowledge. Unfortunately things like what happened here with Deniss do happen, and hopefully it will be resolved.
I understand your points about posting things in people's sales threads, but I do feel that being a noob or seasoned veteran here, you should be well educated before buying a modded piece. You should be educated on buying any piece for that matter. Ask questions before you buy, and if they aren't answered to your satisfaction, let it go, and if it seems shady, then report it and let the mods take care of it.
I haven't gotten to the point in my rep collecting to buy a modded piece yet. I'm learning, but you can be damn sure that before I ever do I am going to understand as well as I can about the mods that are done, and I would never buy one without seeing the proof of work done or vouches from the watchsmiths that did the work.
Unfortunately noobs don't know all of this stuff most of the time, and it is because they don't read all the info that is set forth for us here to warn us of things to look for and all the stickies and everything. That's why that stuff is written for us. and from what I've seen it is a huge problem, that noobs come on here uninformed without reading a thing, buy or try to sell something and then are surprised by what they get. When if they would have spent some time reading there would be no problems.
If someone scams me, I will be knocking at your door, and when it opens you will be greeted with this..............................................LOL