Freeze Mr.... drop the donuts, and put your hands up!

That got your attention, didn't it?  Or it could look just like any of my posts, so please don't take this as a flame.  

"Can  you picture which ones are taking up that role?"  Nope.  Neither can you or anybody else.  Not if they're any good at it.  What I can picture is the harm done by becoming obsessed with trying.  

Let's face it, if each of us decides to only trust those he's known for years, TER might as well fold up and quit.  The 15 or so members of the "inner circle" or "old boy network" could just as well communicate with each other privately and the rest of us will be ignored by them and by each other.  Which side wins in that case?

The question is, what can a "good cop" as you describe it hope to accomplish?  The Naglafs and bonafidelovers openly try to lure us into the spider's web, and thus they reveal themselves.  By definition, your "good cops" can't do that.

In fact, the only thing they can do is muddy the waters so that nobody trusts anybody else and postings/reviews are useless.  They may not score any arrests that way but it would sure cripple TER.  And this IS how undercover cops think.

There really IS a difference between reasonable caution and irrational paranoia.

"good cop vs bad cop" only works if it's evident who's a cop and who isn't.  as LE has never made an "official" post on this board, a better model, me thinks, is spy vs spy, in this case, with you trying to reveal the mole.  watchout for the landmines surrounding cuba!

All you have to do is use the search function in this forum see the complete history of a poster on this board.  In fact you really don't have to go back much farther than 6-9 months to find the suspicious posters.  

I guess your post is just a reminder to use all the tools available to you.  Guys have to have the same attitude as the ladies do.  Consider everybody suspicious until they prove that they aren't.