Topic: Dear Theymos,i have a good idea. (Read 1124 times)

I think this is not necessary, as two or three dt can tag someone who made a very high offense. Not all dt are going to leave dt at same time, so it's very high unlikely a multiple tagged user gets ride of his tag.

The thread does contain some valid point that I would like to counter.

I think trust is very different from distrust.

Voting on trust and distrust is problematic for a number of reasons:

1) A large number of accounts on this forum are due to account farming.
2) Senior accounts can still be bought.

While people might not want a particular person to represent them but that doesn't make their historic tags invalid.
Voting someone off the DT list also undoes all of the good work they have done.

I'd like to see more agreement between DTs on tagging scammers so the worst ones where there is agreement that they are scammers are tagged forever.

When the forum moved from the previous version to the current version this was taken care of with the "oldscammertag" profile.

Perhaps there should be an option where if enough DTs vote someone is a scammer a permanent tag is used. (Reserved for the worst offenders)

My bad
But, hey, it was a "good" post after all, totally worthy of merit

Seconded.

Sweet.

Funny how the OP likely created this thread in order to get merits and is finally getting some one year later.  The account hasn't even been active for months now.  Maybe this thread needs to be locked?  

Edit:
No criticism from me as far as giving him merits--I got fooled as well when I started reading the thread and didn't realize it was from last year until I got about halfway through the first page. 

The population of users getting tagged by DT are probably more than the 1/3 of the population -- too much you might say but just count the alts they do have that will vote in demoting a DT. If you can demote a DT by vote that wouldn't be fair for them for they were not promoted to being DT by vote either.

Thats the never ending nonsense you post.
You posted yourself that you know that many people got wrongly negative tagged by DT members you voted in and which you encouraged to start the mess.
I asked you before and will ask you again what did you due to fix the issue that these legit people got their account crashed ?
It just needs a single look at my account with 158 negative point rating to see the massiv abuse of DT members once somebody raise his voice.
They instantly attack somebody search for anything to justify their negativ rating even if its the biggest crab and you got another account destroyed.
Most DT members are fuckers defending each others and there are only a few DT members and even Moderators trying to help but not in public but instead sending PM's so the other DT members can't see it.
Why are even these DT members and Mods hiding their support for these people ?Do they have to fear negative reprecussion once they voice their real opinion which is diffrent that from these abusiv punks ?Of course they do else they wouldn't hide their support.
I took myself the conclusion out of this garbage.
The main fault is not caused by the punks itself since they basicly protect their influence and benefit on this forum as thats their main income however the main fault is held by theymos who is seeing everything seeing the abuse of these people that he even whistled them back but still he see's no reason to fix defamed accounts without any valid reason.He is the one who is silent and giving permission of that abuse because would he say a clear word that DT members are not allowed to defame/destroy accounts without clear evidence these people wouldn't do it.
So all the abuse on this forum can be lead back to theymos inactivty.
OGNASTY posted that DT members experiment should be given more time that i can lead to something good.Than my question would be what about all the accounts which have been wrongfully defamed by these punks ?
Seriously my account has 158 negativ trust points.I look like the biggest scammer on this board if somebody wouldn't know me from outside of this board.
Now show me who exectly did i scammed ?
Vod the biggest pathetic calling himself eldger defending the real values.Did somebody check his permanent nonsense posts he is making ?You can clearly see his amount of grey cells is not exceeding to much.
Myself i defended members of this board from real scams like Quark back in 2012/13 proofing that majority of coins is being hold by a small group which is creating a pump and dump using sponsored promotion and bribe.
I warned many people on many coins which i got credited later from these people who are now high ranked members on this forum but not participating in bounties since they haven't the need to as early participants.
And now have a look at some DT members who have been proofen to scam people on this board one posting racist comments for signatures income with his alt account and all of them are DT members with a great trust feedback score looking like legit members and myself i who never ever scammed anyone on this board for a dime,who activly warned members about scams so they won't lose money,i'm now looking like the biggest scammer on this board.Why ?Because i bought an account for a friend's service thread so he can add an image to it and where i read the forum rules where it clearly said buying accounts is allowed (there was no warning its discouraged) and in addition even asked a mod if its allowed and got a positiv feeback.
For that action and for denying to accept the negativ rating as fair i'm now being shown as the biggest scammer on board.
Seems very reasonable for me compared with the DT members who have been proofen of scams and racist comments who got a positiv feedback score.Seems like raising your voice against DT members is a way bigger scam than actually to really scam someone or post racist comments for profit with an alt account.
Sorry but your system is not working and never will be if DT members will use it to defend themself and their abusiv actions.

I myself said clearly i won't be activ in this forum anymore till this changes and that i'm not going to support a corrucpt forum.I don't make a dime from this forum so i also won't support it when receiving this massiv abuse from DT members and seeing an admin just watching and not getting activ to stop that abuse and most important make good all the false abuse hundreds of members received.

Bitcointalks Moderator Blazed himself admitted in public that he knows that many people have been tagged wrongfully.
He never asked to remove these false taggs.


There is a reason why these DT members and Mods fear to give any power back to the community as this would result instantly in a revange act for their massiv abuse.

Myself i'm out of this board as i won't support it anymore.I give a fuck if bitcointalks members will get scammed or not.Holding on these punks there is a guarantee they will get scammed .

And to answer Vod's question as this dumb person thinks he proofed anything.I haven't forgatten about you.You are lucky i have a new contract which makes it currently impossible for me to fly for 3 days to canada.
But deferred is not suspended.I asked the lawyer how long you can be hold responsible for it and there is enough time.
And no your assumption that i left that account is wrong.I don't support this forum anymore till all the abuse will be fixed in which you took part too.

I'm out of this board

Dead-thread digger found! 

Just like @qwk, I started from the OP and read all the replies until I reached the reply of @LoyceV without realizing that the thread is a year old. 

Damn, fell for it
That's what you get for just looking at "January 26"

First off, I'm basically opposed to everything you wrote.

You put your requests forward in an eloquent, understandable and congruous manner.
That constitutes a "good" post, which is why I awarded it with merit.
This is no endorsement of any kind of anything you wrote.

We already have a voting system.
Not everybody is eligible for a vote, though.
You have to qualify by 10 merits.

There is some justification for not trusting people who cannot compose a simple, understandable English sentence.
It's highly unlikely to come to agreeable terms with another party when there's a language barrier.
If both parties understand whatever's been agreed upon differently, the outcome may be considered a breach of contract by either.

That's something to consider, but for the moment, the system itself does not allow that without a lot of work for the Moderators.

An alteration of the idea has been suggested in the past (including, among others, by me): decaying trust.
I.e. a negative trust rating could simply be left for a limited amount of time.
So far, that idea hasn't caught on.

1. 250 earn (cycled) merits from 2 x people destroyed the entire idea and centralised it. Not only that it tied together both systems of control so collusion is easier.

2. anecdotal nonsense that is a faux rebuttal

3. LoyceV does not really have the capacity as I have proven time and time again to differentiate between a net positive and net negative contribution. Also apparently even facts presented to demonstrate clear wrongdoing and untrustworthy actions of his friends are "useless posts"

His post is net negative on the basis that is tries to crush valid points being made by others. Even if he believes the idiotic tripe he produces that does not change the fact that using empty or faux rebuttals to cloud the issue is net negative.

This topic is a year old, and I only realized that after going through it. It looks like you got exactly what you asked for: There is a voting system now: all users with at least 10 earned Merit can vote for DT1, and all DT1-members can "downvote" other DT1 members. It's not perfect, but it limits abuse and manipulation.

And some non-native English speakers made it to DT1 while on the forum for less than a year. See Coolcryptovator (and his Trust list) for example.

Recently, I've read similar statements a few times. It's as if suddenly the "express their thoughts" thing become popular as an excuse for useless posts. Instead of just "spilling their guts", users should try to add value to the discussion.

The vast majority of these issues could be solved if we moved to treating the trust system again as reflecting actual trade, not endless other subjective opinions. Negative ratings should be limited to cases where evidence of theft, violation of a contractual agreement, or violation of the law can be documented. As it is now the trust system is arbitrarily enforced, full of noise, and not something noobs can really use as a quick reference for trust. We should be teaching people to do due diligence and read these ratings anyway, not just to rely on red and green numbers.

Much as I agree with you, I also want to toe the line of thought of the OP because I see a window of balance in his proposition. There have been complaints of bullying, witch hunting and overzealousness of some DT. A system where you can lay a report and these "elders" can elucidate on the submissions and come up with a sanction or otherwise will not be out of place. This will be like an appeal council of elders.

 I think Theymos always try to get as close as possible to decentralized systems. Both with the Merit system and with the Trust System. Often, the suggestions involve centralizing the decisions in some people, like hiring someone or leaving with the mods, or a system of votes. Creating a democracy, with a system of equal votes for each user, is very difficult in an environment where anonymity must prevail. In this current system, it seems to me that the opinion of each user is quite important, although I have not studied the system completely. That is, you add someone or remove someone always counts. I do not have anyone on my Trust list, just the Defalt, but I removed some user I do not trust in opinion.

The whole trust system was implemented back then because the community is just too big to monitor for the limited number of staff. However, times have changed since then. Why not hire a bunch of NEW unbiased staff members and give them money for doing their job. Do hell with all the DT1/DT2/MERIT this MERIT that. Theymos can afford it now cuz he has made millions already. So why leave this task to some unpaid, unprofessional & rude people? Emphasis on some, not all.

I really understand your thoughts,few of these people including me that were tagged as a shitposter were doing their best to express their thoughts.I dont really mind these signatures i am just here to learn the basic things about trading & altcoins.I know that few of these elders already knew that these newly added DTs were abusing their trust ratings to the point that few decent 3rd wolrd shitposters were wrongly tagged and given a red trust.I dont quite understand why these people are opposing theymos rules about the proper use the trust ratings.

Maybe,they were given something that they arent deserved to have or i myself really deserved to have a red trust for being a shitppster from a 3rd world country.I do agree about the spammers,i totally want to see this forum without these spammers but if someone has given a power to stop them they shouldnt target or generalize a race or entity.

Theymos is a great man, i believe he can do something about this to resolve the problems one by one.Thanks blaze for taking actions

I know that and I felt that deep here. What I'm just trying to say is our statement of position here is still not clear, especially the way they want to forum works. Remove these type of people? Do you, me, we have a right? Like I have said before this forum is not a democratic one or lets say it is still not clear what is their way of governing this forum, (control of an organization or group by the majority of its members. see google for democracy). There are people who don't do useless posts like you, but the ratio is almost 1:10, where 10 is the one who make useless posts.
Based on what I have seen in the last few months they are being considerate long enough. They even have the house rules here before a newbie takes a step inside, and some don't even read the rules and some didn't even obeyed the rules and that is a sign of disrespecting the forum. They are here long before me so I respect them for that, and I don't think they missed a reminder telling all the members that don't make a spam.
Some of us broke that rule in the very beginning and they are making them pay for that.

You can not give any advice, theymos is the determinant of what he thinks will stop the shitposter. I myself still do not understand how I get merit from others, because I'm only just a few months here. But, I am not worried, as time went by I learned from this forum not to be one of those “shitposter”.

I would like to add something here. If the user is not good enough to express his thoughts in English then stay out of the English boards. If the signature campaign requires the participants to post only on English boards then do not join that campaign. Simple as that.

Exactly, that's the issue my friend. Many users are making the posts to meet their signature campaign requirement, which encourages the spamming. There is nothing like discrimination, these new rules are just to keep this forum clean.