As described below, I believe that I was inadvertently responsible for this. I intended to settle it with DTs via PM, but didn’t get around to it. I request that everyone who has red-tagged Lauda
for the purpose of warning that she’s gone should agree to neutralize negative feedback.
Because the Lauda account is permanently disabled from login, to use it for posts or PMs requires obtaining administrative-level access to undo whatever theymos did. If a hacker were to obtain such access, he could simply delete all negative feedback from the trust database; therefore, the red tags are completely useless for their stated purpose of warning people that this account should never make new posts or PMs.
Such a hacker could also post as Satoshi. In this aspect, why should Lauda’s account be treated to a different standard than Satoshi’s? —Or should we all now red-tag Satoshi’s account, for no reason but to warn people not to trust new posts or PMs from uid=3?
Unfortunately, I started the trend:
I was the first to red-tag Lauda’s account. I did it because she asked me to, at a time more than seven hours before theymos arrived on her goodbye thread. Or to be more precise: I asked her if I should tag her account, and she said yes.
From my perspective, it was a very bad moment. The question of my tag on Lauda’s account was low in my priorities, and would be for some time.
Lauda herself obviously had no way of knowing with certainty how theymos would handle this; and it is no secret that she was still online when I tagged her account, because she sent merit to this (albeit not
specifically to this
*):
Merited by Lauda (5)(I will now edit that post, which is hereto unedited.)
By the time that theymos replied, Lauda was long gone.It's sad to see you go. Although there were various small bits of drama and conflict, you've been one of the most active and dedicated members of the community over the course of several years. (And if there's no conflict, then probably nothing is
actually being accomplished.) I hope that you're not in any actual danger, and I hope that you will be successful in whatever you choose for your future.
I will request that theymos ban the "Lauda" account (u=101872)
Done.
Lauda is banned in the same way as
satoshi, such that it isn't possible to even log into the account anymore.
At that point,
I saw my tag as an historical artifact. I couldn’t ask Lauda if she wanted me to untag her account. But I didn’t think that it was too important, because I am not in DT; and anyone who trust-includes me must be savvy enough to know to ignore my tag on Lauda. Thus rather than deleting anything,
I countered my own tag with new positive trust feedback, so that Lauda is +2/-1 from me.
This is my current feedback to Lauda, excluding some neutral notes:
Trust summary for LaudaTrusted feedback| nullius | 2020-10-21 | Reference | Principled. No hypocrisy. — What money the account *could* have sold for! Or she was perfectly set up for an exit scam.
Honesty is what one is, not only what one does. |
| nullius | 2020-10-19 | Reference | Starting with the date of this feedback, do NOT trust any further interaction with this account, or with anybody claiming to be Lauda. All of Lauda’s cryptographic keys have been revoked, and there is no way to contact her. |
| nullius | 2020-03-04 | | Lauda is superlatively trustworthy with confidential information which she has promised to keep as such. I say this based on my substantial experience with her handling of confidential information. For obvious reasons, I cannot publicly disclose evidence of that experience; nevertheless, I will personally vouch that I would trust her with almost anything. — Also, I would trust Lauda (and have trusted Lauda) with money that I could not afford to lose—with no better recourse than opening a Reputation thread, if she were to steal it. |
I will now neutralize my red tag (d=271846).
* After I sent her 50 merits, and she thus had 25 sMerits, Lauda sent 5 merits each to the first four replies on her thread. This happened to include two of mine. She then sent her last 5 sMerits to
Satoshi’s last post, and disappeared.
, can also add Lauda's name to your trust list.
