You were supposed to go on IRC, in #bitcoin-markets.
There, strange nicks would cater to your every desire, as long as they involved paypaling them money and hoping to receive some worthless made up coin in exchange.
If you express nervousness at the incongruity of the situation, they would have assuaged your every doubt by showing you their Web of Trust rating, an entirely made up and completely gameable metric that proved they were entirely trustworthy. With math.
In their defense, and in spite of how nonsensical this all seemed, they generally were trustworthy.