The counter argument is what use is trusting the judgement of that person if that person never/very rarely exercises that judgement to leave trust ratings (positive or negative).

Just playing devil's advocate.

What about links to the stickied threads that newbies should be reading: rules, moderation policy, merit, trust, ranks, etc.

Also why not include that link to the full list? I had no idea the full list was accessible like that and have just enjoyed reading them all.

I presume you were told that by someone very reputable, a trusted 3rd party, an anonymous source, a friend of a friend?

Why do you have this insane notion that someone would willingly post their location and tax details to a public forum?

CarVertical were just caught flat out lying about their "partnership" with BMW.

Here is the tweet from cV announcing their "partnership" with BMW on 15th March:

And here is a tweet from BMW earlier today (20th March) denying any such thing:

CarVertical are paying BMW to use their product (which anyone can do), and claiming it as a "partnership". By this logic, I'm a "partner" with Microsoft and Apple. An absolute disgrace, and an obvious attempt to scam potential buyers. Yet another example of a scam coin making all of crypto look bad. If you are invested in this scam, I would recommend getting out ASAP.

VeChain and carVertical, although two very different projects with very different goals, have both claimed parternships with BMW over recent weeks. As has been revealed over the last few hours, although VEN continues to be a reliable project, cV is a scam.

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Here is the tweet from cV announcing their "partnership" with BMW on 15th March:

And here is the tweet from BMW earlier today (20th March) denying any such thing:

An absolute disgrace, and an obvious attempt to scam potential buyers. Yet another example of a scam coin making all of crypto look bad. If you are invested in this scam, I would recommend getting out ASAP.

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Meanwhile, BMW confirmed their partnership with VEN:

They could. But at their current market cap of $2 billion, they would have to burn 99.8% of their coins for the remaining coins to be worth $10. Never going to happen. Also doesn't change the fact that it's a plagiarized shitcoin.

Tron has a total supply of 100 billion. For it to be worth $10 a coin, its market cap would have to be $1 trillion. That's a higher market cap than Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple or Microsoft. Couple that with the fact that the Tron developers have so little idea what they are doing they had to plagiarize their whitepaper and plagiarize their code.

Tron will never be worth $10. It doesn't even deserve to be in the top 100.

Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that following him around the forum posting off topic replies isn't going to help you get your negative trust removed.

Binance is currently the largest exchange in the world, with a volune of approximately $1.7billion in the last 24 hours. Its coin has an actual use (it reduces trading fees by half, and is therefore very valuable to traders), which is more than can be said for a lot of other top coins.

You forget that I am the leet h4xx0r who doxed the undoxable! I'll peek at your tags as much as I want!

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Perhaps we could re-use the Babel fish that I mentioned earlier, in a quick re-hash of the classic Babel fish vs. God case:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God/QS's source, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish/constant spam is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God/QS's source, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

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Yes, a most horrendous case of Pleurodelinaemia, and one that required my years of knowledge to treat. Casting such a spell is clearly treason, and therefore I would argue for capital punishment.

So strong implications are good enough now, when they weren't previously?

Baseless accusations, no evidence, and an "anonymous source". This all sounds strangely familiar...

Exactly this. Go through the Meta board and click on all the threads whining about merit (examples here, here, here, and here, to pick just a few). Also go to theymos's original announcement thread and look at the people in there whining about merit (examples here, here, here, and here, again to pick just a few).

Now, what do all these people have in common? They all have no merit. They are all complaining about merit. They are all writing in poor, broken, sometimes incomprehensible English. They are all adding nothing to the discussion or just repeating points made previously (that they haven't bothered to read).

These are exactly the types of posts/posters that merit was designed to combat. It is working as intended.

I'll have you know that I Googled* "Joke over head" and used the first image I found. I'm not so careless as to expose my handwriting to the internet!

As a side note, your anchor tags alone make better reading than half the posts in this thread.

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*Not actually Google, but one of several privacy respecting search engines that exist. If you want to find a similar engine, trying Googling it, heh.

These threads are getting more ridiculous every day. OP has been a member for under 2 days and has made a grand total of 12 11 posts (seems one of his posts was deleted for spam).

I wonder if we could calculate the number of useless posts the merit system has helped reduced vs. the number of useless posts created about the merit system...

Between October and early January, with a lot of new money and new people getting involved in crypto, you could pick any shitcoin you liked and were almost guaranteed to make a profit (examples: Titcoin, ColossusCoin, Marijuanacoin, even top 100 shitcoins like Dentacoin, Verge, Tron). With the market crash, these coins dumped the hardest and the fastest, which will hopefully serve as a warning to not throw your money away on useless projects. Better to stick to solid fundamentals: BTC, ETH, NEO, etc.

There will always be naive newbies who will spend their money on trash (example: Bitconnect is still being traded), so it is unlikely a lot of these coins will ever die off entirely, but hopefully this prolonged dip will cause these projects to be rightfully shunned and ignored by the majority of the community.

Any chance it could provide us with an electronic Babel fish? Would be useful to translate the broken English in to something comprehensible.

As anyone who has ever played online games can confirm, if phrases like this actually meant anything  the human race would have simultanesouly gone extinct and experienced a major population boom from the number of people being told "Kill yourself" and "I fuck your mother" on a daily basis.