VOD clearly didn't remove those ratings because he "realized the error of his ways" or something, he did it because the community finally stepped up and called him on his bullshit, even if the staff made sure they were looking the other way. He has had a clear pattern of excessive behavior just like this over and over and over. This demonstrates to me VOD is only sorry when it effects VOD, therefore he is a liability to this community in his position of default trust. If that doesn't concern the staff, Badbear, Canaryinthemine, and Tomatocage, well I guess that is just what the community will have to suffer from because they are unwilling to make hard choices and do what is right for everyone, not just their buddies.
This is arguing against your own point. If this were to be true then when the community as a whole (not the people who can scream the loudest, or who can open the most threads) argue that a trust rating is invalid then such rating should be removed by the person who left it. If they do not then they should not be trusted to be on default trust.
The community did the same to you, and you refused to remove the negative rating. As a result you were removed from the default trust list.
Yeah, except I wasn't just removed from the default trust list. Theymos made a new feature called "trust exclusions", and I got to be the first person it was used upon. Basically anyone who trusts me and also has the default trust, nukes my trust listing calculations. This is punitive punishment beyond removing me from the default trust. Furthermore I was removed from the default trust for trying to "silence" Armis, which is completely not true, I simply wanted a single marketplace op free of harassment. This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and twisted around from the very first moment.
Speaking of screaming the loudest, Theymos, and other staff members had no issues mobilizing from a centralized position of authority to have me removed from the default trust over one incident. Yet some one like VOD repeatedly and knowingly violates the trust standards and just modifies it later and everyone looks the other way and refuses to do anything about it. Additionally I was always told that trust ratings are not moderated. No one ever once explained to me the responsibility I was undertaking by some one placing me on the default trust.
The rules are unwritten, unspoken, and never explained to me by anyone. One day I was just on the default trust left to assume my trust is not moderated just like everyone else. If some one had bothered to inform me of my new responsibilities, or even post clear rules some where, I would have handled it different. Instead all I see is arbitrary and selective enforcement of them, making it not so simple to tell what the rules are simply by example. This is exactly why VOD needs to be removed.
If the staff refuse to post clear rules, the ONLY example by which we have to judge standards which we are supposed to follow is HOW WE SEE OTHER USERS USING THE SYSTEM. Judging by VOD's use of the trust system, my trust rating was perfectly legitimate. He is on the default trust, by definition he is supposed to serve as an example. As an example he has failed and is destructive to the community as a result. My case of the default trust removal is a PERFECT example of it. This is why I am so insistent about him being removed now, especially after he attacked me for simply being critical of his behavior.
