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Only Cobra, Cyrus and Theymos may reply. Satoshi can chime in, if he feels strongly about the situation, which I expect he would.
Red trust is clearly being used by certain DT members as a weapon to silence whistle blowers and crush free speech here in general.
If anyone mentions the prior observable wrong doing of certain DT members they are immediately given red trust to silence them.
One needs to only say they will encourage others to review those DT's post histories and you will get red trust.
If one complains and tell the DT members they are not allowed to give red trust for presenting facts regarding them or their friends wrong doing. They they say " I can, I will, and I just have". Their abuse is brazen and open.
This is 100% perverting the very reason for having default trust.
I can bring clear observable evidence to demonstrate what I am claiming is true and taking place on this forum.
What are you going to do about this situation? It seems a core of about 5 or 6 DT are doing this, but the entire DT system is full of others that will do NOTHING about this kind of abuse and will actually condone it.
There are numerous instances of clear double standards and corrupt behavior.
The implications for free speech here are quite bleak. It seems irresponsible to allow individuals that have been demonstrated untrustworthy on numerous occasions to be given leverage on this board to gain trust of the most vulnerable and silence any whistle blowers. Since their past untrustworthy behaviors are clearly observable there can be no sensible and responsible reason to let them continue in these positions of trust that leaves the entire board vulnerable to their actions.
Why are these people not blacklisted from the trust system?
At the very least bring them in line with a clear RULE. Red trust to be issued for proven scams and scammers or those you can present a STRONG case are about to scam or have scammed. All other red trust must be removed and those breaking this rule will be black listed?
What is so difficult about issuing this command to save the board from this abusive and corrupt bunch of DT members that have grasped control of the trust system?
Other members seem to have recognized this a while back
but this latest drama with Lauda has opened my eyes a bit...
Yeah, I've distanced myself with her. What can you do? You speak out and you get negative trust...
How do I defriend Lauda without getting negative trust from her and ruining five years?
Do you think it’s acceptable that Lauda hasn’t tagged aTriz yet? Do you think there is any reason why everyone shouldn’t tag aTriz for what he did?
Let me answer that this way - how can I leave negative trust for either of them without ruining my account?
As for your account being ruined if you tag one of them, I’m well aware. I guess the difference is that I do what I feel is right regardless of how it may effect me, and you appear to be having your true opinions silenced out of fear. So forgive me if I take your criticisms with a grain of salt.