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I was once red-tagged for some stupid post where I offered to provide a review service in exchange for being paid for my review. I immediately deleted the post, but I was tagged. I sent a message to the DT user who tagged me, and explained my situation in a calm manner, and that I was apologetic and didn't realize I was actually displaying fraudulent behavior until it was too late. After reading my explanation, the DT user changed the negative feedback rating to a neutral one. He had no reason or obligation to do that, but I think because I approached him fairly and calmly, he gave me the benefit of the doubt.
Over the course of several months, I started becoming more active here, making some friends, and calling this my internet home... I've dedicated countless hours to consciously becoming more contributive until finally, I decided to message that DT user and asked him to review my post history so I can prove to him that I was a contributing member here. I then asked him to remove the neutral trust. He did.
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... If you ask them politley they will still make fun of you by claiming to be third world shits..lolzz... I have addressed this is my below posts. There you can see how DT member :The Parmicsts: making fun of people cryings and watch my reply on it too...
I see your answer BTCforJoe and I can't stop myself to share a different story with you.
Mistakes happen on this forum and not all DT trust members are so polite and willing to discuss their choices.
I was tagged by Hillariousandco more as 100 days ago for "Trading merit with those who leave him points as advertised via his avatar. Also copied content without proper attribution". My case is not resolved until today and Hillariousandco doesn't answer to my innocents' proofs from one month in my negative trust thread. Of course, I haven't traded or given in exchange even one merit and I have added an announcement to my post about missing quotation before Hillariousandco tagged me not after as he says.
As you see BTCforJoe you were lucky to be tagged by another member because I have written like you 4 PM's in 2 weeks to Hillariousandco. I was always very polite using words thank you, please, sorry and never got any reply. After that, I opened my reputation thread to prove that I am innocent.
You can read here my last answer to Hillariousandco in my negative reputation thread which contains proofs and sums everything up
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-remove-negative-trust-from-hilariousandco-28644312girls says about another member or even members who were not tagged despite they abused forum rules same as 2girls. My situation is similar. I was tagged for an avatar I have copied from legendary member Jeremycoin and he was not tagged red despite I have written about this to Hillariousandco next day after it happened and I have posted about this in my reputation thread. This member used this avatar for a few days more and like I said before nobody tagged him. When I asked about this everybody seems to not see this question or just ignore it.
I have even added a merit policy (Merits only for quality content, no merits in exchange, spam is not good) to my signature and avatar and worn it for about 2 months. Nothing helps I am still tagged. If this was such a crime why to punish only me?
I am on this forum 5 years frequently. Never rushed to achieve higher rank, never spammed (my first posts are not so good but I learned how to post quality content), never did anything wrong, never insult anybody or used offensive language (I know this is not in forum rules and is allowed but I am proud of this), never got warning, etc.
I don't think I am guilty. I don't fill guilty and I can do nothing. This is killing me every day because in my reputation thread high-rank users advised me: "you have to move on", "don't worry red trust is not the end of the world", "nobody looks on red trust". This all is not true. I was rejected several times from various projects and promotions on the forum because of red trust. I was involved in a discussion and member told me: " do something with your red trust first and then come back to talk here". It was humiliating for me and I have to admit that I'm ashamed when I post. I try to even avoid these subforums where you can see trust because I noticed that people do not treat you seriously with a red trust and you can forget about merits completely.
I have to add that I have seen The Pharmacist around the forum and I think that he is an asset with no doubt. Didn't know about his problems and that he is not in DT anymore. I think his posts are very valuable and high quality. I like to read his point of few because sometimes his words influenced the change of viewpoint by me. From what I saw lately, his judgments were accurate, I agree with them.