I've been following this topic for the past days, but didn't post here yet.
Everyone who left Vod appropriate red-trust were removed from DT as a result.
Vod currently has red trust from bill gator (DT1). I'd like to point out that Vod didn't exclude teeGUMES.
If anyone's interested in creating a timeline, I have hourly copies of the
Default trust breakdown since April 12.
I'm sure that's not a problem, right?
DT isn't perfect. But I do believe standing up for what you believe in, as teeGUMES did, shows character.
For the meriters, I can understand the argument for red-trust, but I tend to think that it's at the wrong level. If the meriter was meriting it because they were actively thinking, "I want to make the forum really vicious, where everyone is constantly tearing each other apart for stupid things, and this post moves in that direction," even that's not really a trust-relevant motive, just a very unhelpful motive. And probably the meriters were thinking more innocent things than that.
I never got to see Vod's post (and I don't scrape the Investigations board), but I often use Merit as "worth reading".
In some cases that can be because it says a lot about the user who posted it (but again: I didn't get to read the post so can't judge if that was the case here).
(My) Merit isn't a "I agree" and also not an endorsement for a post. I hope more people treat Merit this way.
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