UPDATE:
Private talks with Quickseller to try to resolve this 6 month long trust-abuse saga have ostensibly broken-down. QS has not replied to a simple request that he explain his negative feedback. I honestly don't know the etiquette with respect to prosting private messages, so I won't do that unless QS has okayed it. Instead, I'll simply summarize the conversation. If QS objects to this characterization, then hopefully he'll allow me to simply publish his messages and my replies. What I'm doing for the moment is trying to summarize his replies without quoting them, and I'm publishing my comments to him in full.
My first message to QS:
Hi QS,
I have a feeling this won't work, but I thought I should at least try PMing you to see if there's something we can work out privately.
Can we end this nonsense? I think you know in your heart that I never did anything wrong and that I'm no danger to anyone. What can we do to stop this?
--TSP
2) QS replies that "the fact" that I've stolen from coinchat means others must be warned about me. And he says something about paying back one of TF's victims as some sort of retribution.
snip QS quote
If you have "determined" this, then you have fooled yourself because in fact, I never stole anything from coinchat.
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Calling it intimidation isn't helping. I'm merely doing exactly what I've been doing for the last six months, which is trying to defend myself from your smear attack. Surely you realize that you can make a mistake. I hope you'll look harder at the facts and consider your own reputation here. Hanging on to this personal grudge isn't going to make you look better. If anything, I'd call what you were doing to me intimidation (you've not only called me a millon bad names, you've threatened and intimidated me with multiple accounts.
I could really make the same argument to you that you're making to me---that people should be warned of the kind of intimidation and smear tactics that you've used on me. But if you look at what everyone is saying to you, they're asking that we drop this. I can't drop it if you won't leave me alone.
Lets end the nonsense, please. How long will this have to go on, for years? It's been half a year already. I won't stop talking about this publically until you withdraw the false accusation. I don't want to have to keep defending myself forever. Please, it's time to listen to reason.
I hope you'll consider this.
--TSP
4) QS replies that if I can explain or have someone else explain how I didn't steal from coinchat then he will remove his rating. He brings up the fact that he offered money to have someone explain to him how I didn't steal from coinchat. He says he thinks I will always troll him. He says he will not remove his rating for no reason.
My reply:
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I think you and both know that this was you attempting to make a mockery of me. I really wish you would drop the theatrics. The idea of talking privately is that you don't have to show off and you can be honest and hopefully we can solve this problem.
snip QS quote calling me a troll
Personally, I find you to be a disgusting individual on some sort of power trip. However, it's not my calling in this world to fix all the problematic people I encounter. And you'll note that while your character traits make me think that you are a dangerous person that people should avoid dealing with, I'm not running around saying you are a scammer when I have zero evidence that you have scammed.
My goal in using this forum is to try to learn about bitcoin and cryptography, to help others when I can (as others have helped me), to find small jobs here and there (I have other work, but side jobs for bitcoin are a nice way to acquire some). Crucially, I'm quite tired of having to deal with lies and lies and more lies being spread about me.
I also think that you know that you are the one who started this with me. You and I both know that one day, out of the blue, you logged into the dadice thread as acctseller and started saying that you were going to have me kicked out. I've always assumed that you did this because you didn't like me calling you out as a hothead. If there is honestly some other reason why you started this, I think it would be great if you would tell me. However, if you don't want to talk about that, I'm not trying to press you on it. My goal here is to find out how to appease you so that you will leave me alone.
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Again, I wish you would explain how you came to this conclusion that I'm a scammer. In fact, I've never scammed anyone and I do my best to warn others about scams when I see them. It's my belief that you don't actually think that I'm a scammer but that you were annoyed at me for insulting your temper. I believe that you went looking for some dirt to hold against me, and latched onto TF's false accusation. But at the end of the day, you and I both know that TF's word isn't credible. I know this in a very personal way because he falsely accused me long before he stole everyone's money and ran away. You say you are not taking his word for it, but what are you taking? I really think that you explaining this in some rational way is important.
snip QS quote asking me to explain myself to him
Again, I think it would be real starting point for this discussion if you could
explain how you think that you know that I did scam coin chat. I was there, I know that I didn't scam. I don't think you were there so I have no idea how you think you have any knowledge of that situation.
The best I've been able to come up with is that you've been repeating "tspacepilot is a scammer" so many times to yourself that you're starting to believe it as some kind of mantra or unthinking truth. I know that I've been very aggressive and public in trying to defend myself against you and this must have set you into a defensive mode yourself. Now, no one is looking, it's time for you to engage your cognitive brain once again and consider the facts here. Please.
Again, I'm pleading with you that you'll think hard about this and listen to the reason of your peers. Everyone on the forum now is clamouring for you to be done with this. Ask yourself this, man: if I am so obviously a scammer, then why on earth is it the case that you are literally the only one who is neg-repping me other than TradeFortress. Do you really feel like you have some sort of insight that no one else who looked into this can see? If so, what is it? Why is everyone else missing it?
Please don't just reply calling me a scammer again. Please reply with some comment about
why you think I'm a scammer so that I can address that. I know I'm not a scammer and I honestly have no idea why you think I am (to be completely honest, I've always assumed that you don't really belive it yourself but were just using TF's attack as a way to try to smear me---so if you really do believe I am a scammer, it's time to say why you think so). It's really not possible for me to address your issue until you speak up about what it is.
Best,
--TSP
I never heard back from him after this. 3 days later, however, I wrote to him again:
Dear Quickseller,
If you're working on a long reply then please take your time, I will be patient. If you're planning on not replying then maybe you could at least let me know why.
I'm really trying to avoid going back to the public fighting which I find quite useless. I hope that you feel the same way and you're willing to work this out. At the end of the day, however, if you refuse to talk privately about this then what recourse do I have other than to go back to the public to try to set the record straight.
To clarify, what we're waiting on is for you to say in concrete terms how it is that you think you know what happened at coinchat in 2012.
Best,
--TSP
Now, several more days have passed and I still haven't heard from him. I think that leaves me with no choice but to go back to the sisyphean task of asking the rest of default trust (and others) to look closely at this matter. Quickseller has left me a negative feedback which interferes with my ability to use the forum and he is on default trust.
He literally refuses to explain his rating.Furthermore, it's quite a shame that three topics have to be shoved into one thread, but the other two topics here are also crucial:
Quickseller is trust-spamming me, having left 3 negative feedbacks from 3 accounts. This is a bannable offense in other threads, why is QS allowed to use sockpuppetry to continue his smear campaign against me? More to the point, why is someone who does this kind of thing on the default trust list?
Tomatocage is normally quote judicious and fair with his ratings, but he is literally vouching for this abusive behavior. Why is he so nonchalant about the damaging behavoir that's being perpetrated in his name?
I also note that I have written to a collection of 7 mods/staffs/default-trusters about this issue 3 weeks ago and I have not received a single reply.
What can I do to resolve this? Am I going to have to spend the entirety of 2015 fighting against Quickseller abuse? How can you guys go on supporting someone who behaves in this way? Let's bring it back to the beginning, what started here is that I told quickseller he was being and asshole for calling people idiots who disagreed with him. I told him this is not the way to behave. 6 months later i have 3 negative feedbacks from 3 of his accounts and he has been promoted to default trust. (Note that I have asked QS to please let me know if there's some other motivation for this, he has not replied). Note clearly that I am not trying to get onto any trust list, I never trade on here and my goal is simply to stand up for myself in this random, abusive attack from a guy that at this point, bitcointalk default-trust is vouching for. Why are you guys supporting this terrible, childish, vindictive behavior? If QS cannot explain his magical knowledge of something that happened on coinchat in 2013, something which no other forum member who was active at the time took issue with, how is it okay for him to use that as a proxy for starting some kind of a sock-puppet smear attack that's now lasted half a year?
It's time to end this issue, if QS cannot explain himself, default trusters needs to exclude him.
