I realize that not everyone has rights to see everything that happens on this forum, so they might not understand why Lauda forming a crew to spread negative trust to users is the direct opposite of the forum's wishes. I was once like Lauda and thought we should be proactively fighting against scammers instead of positively lifting up those that don't scam. Lauda, welcome to 2015. Nice to see you're only 2-3 years behind me in trying to better this place, only I accepted the forum's stance, and you've unleashed a sea of tears like an entitled child. This is the response I received from a Global Moderator when I tried to recommend we engage in exactly what Lauda is now doing. This is pretty black/white, right?
Q: Why haven't you banned who is an obvious scammer?
A: Possible (or real, not for me to decide) scams are not moderated to prevent moderator abuse. If we start picking out which ones we call "scammers" and ban, we would make a lot of decisions based on biased opinions.
If we start picking out which ones we call "scammers" and ban, we would make a lot of decisions based on biased opinions.
picking out which ones we call "scammers"
You've posted that somewhere else too, and I thought it missed the point when I first read it, even if it's not a deliberate strawman.
No-one's asking the System, via moderators, to ban suspected scammers for the reasons applicable above.
But that's a Country Mile from the System discouraging/censoring the leaving of trust ratings by individual forum members, even if it's not 100% spot on.
I "pick out" and leave negatives for suspected scammers in the hope that it might stop some newbie getting scammed, but because few of them probably understand things like Depth settings, then I doubt it ever gets read, but I still leave it. Is this not what we are supposed to do?