Nubbins feels it is appropriate to use his position on the default trust list to attempt to intimidate and silence people for the grievous crime of disagreeing with his opinions/actions in public. This week he has been systematically destroying the trust ratings of several people who disagree with his use of mob action, and also speak up in support of the user WoodCollector.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/woodcollector-392383Apparently a member of the staff also decided to join in and BAN several of these users for supporting WoodCollector's position and deleted their comments.
Here is a list of his most recent left negative trust ratings:
TECSHARE:
2015-01-25 0.00000000 "Use caution when trusting this user's judgment"
Reference :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10257046(the reference is basically him commenting about me, a bit of circular logic and not at all specific)
SodaWarz:
2015-01-21 0.00000000 "Sock. Shill."
Reference : NONE
(Other users such as Mitchełł, jonald_fyookball, BadBear, danielpbarron, & smoothie he is a "provable alt of Woodcollector" or that he is "supporting a scam" simply because he does not agree with their opinions and supports WoodCollector's stated position. I see no actual evidence anywhere for this, just speculation, accusations and mob attacks on anyone who doesn't agree with their speculation.)
poisenrang:
2015-01-23 0.00000000 "Paid shill, do not trust"
Reference :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10237014(this rating is apparently for posting a single sentence. "WOAHH!!! this piece is so nice! carved so well!")
TerraHasher:
2015-01-25 0.00000000 "Shill / Scammer"
Reference: NONE
(Other users such as jonald_fyookball, BadBear, Rawted, Somekindabitcoin, smoothie, Rawted again, & danielpbarron joined in on the feedback abuse, usually citing "provable alt of Woodcollector" or some other accusation of him being a sock puppet or shill. I would love to hear about all this "proof" Badbear has. I suspect it consists of him accepting the speculations of Nubbins and others in his mob clique, and therefore not proof of anything. I have heard the staff here say many times it is nearly impossible to prove or disprove if some one is using an alternate account. This is quite convenient for accusations for use in mob attacks.)
ukcrypto:
2015-01-25 0.00000000 "Confirmed sock or moron, take your pick"
Reference: NONE
(This is an actual satisfied customer of Woodcollector's. I see now that leaving negative trust for "morons" is now an acceptable standard for a trust rating. I guess half of the users on this forum should have negative tags then. Another user, jonald_fyookball also joined in on this feedback abuse stating in his negative trust rating "probably an alt of woodcollector." )
bitspill:
2015-01-25 0.00000000 "WARNING: User may be unable to parse simple English text. Exercise caution."
Reference: NONE
(This user was also speaking in support of Woodcollector. Nubbins left a negative at first but then modified it to a neutral. The way that this is worded seems more like an attempt at an insult than any actual information about WHY he left the negative/neutral rating.)
It seems to me there is a very clear pattern of a small handful of closely associated individuals choosing to systematically tarnish the reputation of honest users here simply for having the audacity to disagree with them, as an attempt to intimidate them into silence. I must say I am also a bit shocked that staff would go as far as banning several of these people to prevent them from speaking (including deleted comments). It is convenient that all of these accusations of sock puppeting and shills can nether be proven or disproven. Additionally it has never been considered "scamming" to use an alt, especially when they person they claim they are sock puppeting for is not even proven a scammer himself. This is clearly a coordinated attempt to silence discussion on the topic by a bunch of Nubbin's buddies.
These accusations are clearly spurious and just an attempt to silence any debate on the topic by intimidating and "discrediting" anyone who dares to support Woodcollector's narrative. Nubbins and his mob have done nothing but spew SPECULATION and have never at ANY POINT presented any substantial fact based evidence that Woodcutter, or any of the other individuals he attacked by abusing the trust system ever did anything wrong. Again, it is all 100% speculation. Theories and speculation are not equivalent to proof. As a result of this I am requesting Nubbins be removed from the default trust list (level 2). Canaryinthemine please remove this yet another example of abusive users from your trust list.
Video proof Woodcollector does in fact carve his peices without a laser engraver or a CNC:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=935115.0;allNubbins's original accusation thread (now shockingly locked):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=930649.0;allThread opened by Woodcollector in the interim after Nubbins locked his thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=931109.20