johhnyUA: Off-topic, but thanks for suggesting this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200104000755/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1159946.420
By way of general preface to my replies, I think that I should better explain what I am trying to do, in terms that are not so abstract.
Imagine that somebody made the following nonsensical argument in defence of a scammer who was caught red-handed:
The course of action that you should be taking is ~ them from your trust list as you don't trust their judgement.
...not only that I don’t trust his judgment about the trustworthiness of others.
I actually asked theymos to give input on this, but he may or may not.
Thanks. But isn’t this the very reason why he created the flag system? I didn’t flag #92110: I saw the new flags, didn’t see any explicit criteria that met this situation, and left an old-fashioned negative feedback.
Unfortunately, since feedbacks have been neutered, this will do little to protect newbies who do not know how to investigate through the trust system. But that is a different topic.
In OP, I referred to trust feedback as a sort of “common law”. It uses have been decided and adapted by precedents set in reaction to different types of untrustworthy behaviour. For an example that I myself experienced, two years ago, when the merit system was introduced, scammers and spammers immediately started feeding merit to their alts. People started red-tagging them; and it became a regular practice, widely accepted on grounds that it was necessary to protect the the integrity of the merit system. If theymos ever made a statement specifically about issuing negative trust feedback for merit abuse, I must have missed it. (Granted, I may have done just that.)
As such, I wanted to see people’s reactions—not as any sort of vote, but more to assess baseline acceptability by the forum community. Thus far, reactions are a mixed bag: Some approval, some idiocy that I can safely disregard, and some disapproval...
Is it supposed to be a big deal or something?
It seems nobody really cares too much other than to say it is a pretty shitty tag and a pathetic choice of a target..
...case in point.
I see no evidence that the sky is falling, or that I accidentally broke the trust system.
(It is an interesting question, but offtopic here, whether the trust system was broken by placing DT under long-term control of mob-rule, and thus demagogues, alt-armies, and people with infinite free time to figure out new ways to game the system.)Steamtyme raised a concern that is not invalid
per se, but it is not something I care much about:
Actions such as this are honestly only emboldening the individuals who feel on the outs, or that having opinions are why they are targeted. They then use these instances as a lightning rod to others, and they aren't wrong when they get handed these gifts that "prove" their opinions on the system to be right.
Aren’t such individuals bold anyway, without “emboldening”? I see no shortage of prolific new topics by people playing the victim because they got their hands caught in the cookie jar. Moreover, I myself do not customarily give a tinker’s damn about the bluster of such people. They will make noise; and if you fear the noise they make, then they will make worse noise.
I don’t see any other criticisms warranting a response more specific than: I will agree to disagree.
Note to self: In the future, on self-moderated threads, add an explicit note that posts quoting a whole post will be deleted. I don’t want to censor hostility toward me in a reputational discussion, so I will not delete this one. But please, for the sake of readers, have some forum etiquette!
1. noobious does not have a miilisatoshi so it matters little to cryptohunter we are sure
You expect for that to make a Bitcoin privacy advocate reveal some juicy evidence of his money? LOL.
Nice to put this fucktard in our sights though and see his true colors. Look forward to plenty of public destruction scumbag. Fancy words and " sounding smart" won't stop us pulling you apart in debate.
Look forward to your own thread.
Writing skills would help. Graded
F. Try harder.
And wow, nullius is back! My attention span doesn't allow me to read everything he writes, but it's cool that he returned.
Thanks.
I don't know if TECSHARE is right that he's an alt of someone, but who knows.
I will mathematically prove how this works. Given:
- nullius = Lauda (Source: forum somebody said so)
- nullius = Satoshi (Source: forum somebody said so)
- Craight Wright = Satoshi (Source: Craight Wright)
n = l, n = s, cw = s
∴ l = cw
Lauda is Craig Wright! Q.E.D.