@jayjuangee - I only ask you remain consistent and stop trying to cast on topic highly relevant context for deciding on fair consistent punishment as off topic trolling. That is dishonest if that is what you are doing?
I am not agreeing that there is any standard that I must be consistent and fair or that I even need to be... . I already attempted to explain to you some of the considerations that I might employ, and I did NOT even explain all considerations, which you should already be able to extrapolate from what I already said instead of striving to employ some standards that do not exist.
Let me just run with your nonsense for a minute and hypothesize, for example, that I log on to the forum, and on a given day, and I only have 1 hour on that day that I can read posts or respond to posts, but I do not have any smerits that I can send; however, while I am reading a post, I come across a post that I consider to be merit worthy from member abracadabra_loves_jones, and for some reason I do not have a piece of paper or any way to log my positive impression of that abracadabra_loves_jones post, but I make a kind of mental note that I should send abracadabra_loves_jones an smerit, so the next time that I am online on the next day, I see another post from abracadabra_loves_jones, and so I send an smerit to abracadabra_loves_jones on day two in regards to a second post.
Heym bonesjones might assert that my sending that smerit was not "fair and consistent" because the second post was NOT as good as the first one, and that second post was NOT even worthy of an smerit. I might have even disagreed with some of the points that abracadabra_loves_jones made in that second post; however, the randomness of my sending the smerit to abracadabra_loves_jones on that second post ends up being inconsistent and unfair, but I give less than two fucks about that because in my mind, I had already determined that I was going to send an smerit to abracadabra_loves_jones based on that first post and I happened to NOT feel inclined to doing any research to find that first post because I fucking did not want to do any research.. even though it would have only taken me 2 more minutes (or even less than that) to find that other first post, but I did not want to spend two more minutes on that particular day, and even though everyone else concludes that I should spend 2 more minutes to find the other post in order to be fair and consistent. Do I have discretion to decide whether to spend the extra 2 minutes or not? I think that I do, and I believe that it is not necessary for me to have to justify that I sent the smerit to the second post rather than the first post.
For whatever reason, I am not in a kind of a mood to make sure that I am being fair and consistent in that particular case, and I don't think that I need to be. I believe that in the hypothetical I am being totally reasonable given my own considerations. So fuck off with your demand that I need to follow some kind of bonesjones standard of consistent and fair when I already explained to you (and probably over-explained) that I believe that I am being sufficiently reasonable in my own discretion of my own approach in terms of balancing my time and making posts and sending smerits.
By the way, I understand that I am providing a kind of dumb example above in order to make a responsive point to your standard imposition demands, bonesjones, and I am not necessarily conceding that I am just randomly sending out smerits, but I am asserting that you are trying to create a standard that does not exist.... and furthermore, none of us really hardly knows who you are anyhow
(I already tried to figure this out with you), so why would you have much if any credibility to be suggesting or imposing standards, (whether smerit sending or participation standards).
Either people want fair and consistent treatment of all members or they want to see double standards.
There is no such dichotomy.
If you say more evidence was provided that caused you to change your mind that is fair enough.
I said what I said.
Don't claim off topic trolling when it is of paramount importance to conducting a balanced and fair debate.
Huh? You consider that you are providing a service by off topic trolling. Interesting.
When people engaging in the debate either directly or by supporting with merit appear to have pulled a 180 on what they said previously then it is sensible to ask why they have done so.
I already answered that.
I also find it strange that I present you with clear irrefutable evidence of financially motivated wrongdoing of those currently on default trust 1.
I did not read any of your homework, and I still don't believe that I need to read homework that you assign in order to participate in various threads, whether I am posting replies or sending smerits. We have already gone down this path, and you have not presented anything that causes me to feel that I need to do more homework or that I am missing something that is relevant to my being able to participate in the ways that I have so far chosen.
Understanding I hope the leverage of being DT1 could provide a scammer you tell me you have no interest in doing homework and reviewing a few 100 words.
I did not say that. I said that I had enough information available to me in order to participate in whatever ways that I had already participated, and you were trying to get me to do homework in off topic and irrelevant matters. You have not proven the relevance of whatever homework you were striving to get me to do... All I have to do is read 100 words? I thought that I had seen way more than 100 words. I saw your post which let's just say is 100 words, but then you have not even proven yourself to be credible in any kind of way.. right? You are a newbie who claims to know me in various ways and you come out bashing against me and then I am supposed to all of a sudden take your word for everything... I mean your supposed 100 words.. and then I saw a bunch of other reply posts.. that is just a quagmire of largely seeming irrelevance.
You seem to be concluding that I am just blowing you off, but I am not. I have been spending way too much time explaining certain perspective matters to you and including responding to a lot of your nonsense by probably giving you way too much benefit of the doubt, even though you tend to assign things to me, but you really do not even respond to various points that I make, and instead you just continue to impose your self and your standards.... We have already gone over this... no?
Amazing how you will review 1000s of words homework from nullius and marlboroza for a member that is not of DT1
Did anyone say that I was reading any of those words in detail? It depends on the circumstances, and sure I will look at the extent to which some members have backed up their claims, and surely it makes sense to give some additional credibility to members who have been reliable in the past. If someone fucks you over and provides misleading information in the past, then it becomes much more difficult to let them drag you down the bullshit road again... so if you are comparing yourself to some of the other more credible members, then you are correct.. you have seemed to have already attempted to drag me down all kinds of bullshit roads and even providing lame evidence, lame facts, lame logic and coming to preposterous conclusions that are contradictory to other kinds of evidence...
So I doubt that I am playing favorites, and if some other members fucks around with me by giving me bad information and sometimes do not even concede their own mistakes, then of course, I am going to spend less time reading anything that they have to say in the future.
, already punished and red tagged and start to merit " investigative " homework and appearing to support a ban for hacker0101000101 now?
Yes... there are some members who seem to be pushing for hacker to get more punishment. That is true.
Your time is not being spent with the best interest of the forum is it?
We have gone over this topic before too, didn't we? You said that your mission is to improve the forum, so that seems to be a laudable mission.
I am NOT proclaiming that your mission would be bad, if that is what you really are trying to do. On the other hand, just because you have a certain mission, you hardly are convincing me that I should join in your purported mission. I barely even trust you in terms of whether I can actually rely upon some of your representations, even in our direct interactions.. the ones that we have had up until now. And since you seem to want to twist my words, twist my intentions and to create a variety of obligations upon me, I have some difficulties in motivating myself to really follow you in any kind of way that goes beyond or direct interactions and even less so to subscribe to what you represent to be your purported mission.
Be fair and honest for once.
I have been trying to work with you... but if you are implying that I am neither honest or fair, then how can we make any progress with those kinds of seemingly unsubstantiated allegations? I cannot even recall an instance in which I have neither been fair with you or dishonest. So, yeah, difficult to work with you when you are just throwing out seemingly erroneous assertions.
You are only thinking of your own popularity and not caring one bit about seeing fair consistent treatment of all members.
We have already discussed these topics, and I don't see where any further elaboration is going to take us.
Don't think I will be friends with those that push double standards.
You said that you are not looking for friends. You are changing your mind? Hey, I said that I was not looking for friends, either, but we did go down that exploration path, and you and I are really having some challenges in the "friends" with each other department, right?
Regarding double standards.. that just seems to be some "out there" assertion, and I am not even sure how you can apply it to me, but hey, do what you will.
Change your ways please.
You want me to change how? To be more like you? That is ridiculous, no? We have already gone over this topic, too, haven't we?
I don't think you want to support scammers but you want to be popular. Pick a side.
I doubt that there is any such clear dichotomy as you are wanting to assert or even a need to pick a side, either.
Don't try to do both in a board that is taken over by scammers and their supporters.
I did not even say that I was trying to do either. You are the one ascribing attributes to my purported motivations.
Only by being unpopular in such a setting can you know you are on the correct path.
We have all kinds of members in this forum. They vary in their level of popularity and of course, they participate in the forum for a variety of reasons and a variety of motives that likely evolve over time, too.... At least hopefully. Members who interact in various threads of the forum will likely evolve in a variety of ways during their forum membership. We also have some members who register but they hardly ever post. I personally believe that there is some value in posting and with interacting with other members, but sometimes it can take away from other important things in real life
(not that forum participation is completely removed from real life).
My interest is not preventing hacker0101000101 being banned, only to ensure a ban is the fair and consistent punishment he deserves while nullius protects and excuses other more serious scammers and trust abusers who are milking the forum harder of btc with their antics?
O.k. I don't have any problem with those kinds of goals or motives that you have.