No matter what system is in place, there will always be people complaining of the DT mafia or something ridiculous.
It is not ridiculous. Just because it is the annoying refrain of scammers caught with their hands in the cookie jar doesn’t make it untrue: Helping oneself to those proverbial cookies is a privilege of such persons as you.
You, yahoo, spent a very long time running an ad campaign for a scam. Everyone knew it was a scam. It caused massive controversy. You did it anyway. It must have paid well.
When a DT
finally stood up and declared that he would tag you for this, he had the unwavering support of exactly one other DT. He was promptly ~kicked out of DT, under the flimsy rubric of your supporters taking a twisted, self-contradictory position in a contemporaneous case. His only 100% firm supporter in DT soon left the forum forever—probably for other reasons, but certainly in a state of disillusionment.
To the best of my knowledge, you never paid any consequences for any of this. Under the public pressure raised by someone who essentially sacrificed his DT status to oppose you, you
finally stopped advertising a massive scam—and that was that. You walked away scot-free, with whatever profit you had thereto gained from your running of signature campaigns for
exactly the type of scam that is designed to swindle naïve newbies. IMO, you deserve permanent negative trust feedback and a Type-1 flag.
You kept your reputation, your business, your DT status. You comfortably and hypocritically ridicule talk about a “DT mafia”, when you yourself are exemplary of it.
Perhaps I should not be so surprised. Once upon a time, theymos, this forum’s administrator,
used to advertise in his own signature an overt “Get Rich Quick... Bitcoin Ponzi scheme” (quote-unquote). In the same era, in that cultural atmosphere, this forum was
a tower of HYIP scams crowned by pirateat40. It was worse than the sleaziest parts of defi today; perhaps it has not changed as much as I had believed.
We need to hold an election or something
We should hold elections every 6 months or year,
Democracy.
New DT is the result of theymos abdicating the responsibilities of sound leadership. Old DT was bad: Instead of fixing it, theymos made it worse. Fixing it would be too much trouble: It would surely require cracking down on some high-trust, high-inclusion users who are thoroughly, very profitably corrupt.
Back in the day when it was 12 users or whatnot, DT meant alot.
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
HTH.
I was going through all of my PMs, a lot of which I kept from my early days on the forum, and I came across this back-and-forth between myself and Blazed. It just goes to show you (anyone who might not be familiar with how things were prior to Theymos's rejigging of the DT system) that being added to DT2--not even DT1, which was the holy grail for trusted aspirants back then--was a pretty big deal.
Plus if I recall correctly, Blazed had to run it by his DT "sponsor" to see if it was cool,
and there had to be two DT1 members adding me to their trust list just for me to get on DT2. Hilariousandco did me the honors.
And then I got booted off a short time later for some reason, and then re-added not long after that. 2018 was all about strangeness on bitcointalk.
Did you ask Blazed before showing that off?
Personal Messages are not private. There is no rule against disclosing them; and sometimes, they
should be published. For good reasons—I think that excessive reluctance to publish PMs that show wrongdoing has sometimes caused long-term damage to the community.
Publishing PMs to brag and show off seems like an exercise of poor judgment, at best.
