There is a lot more to it than that... not that it's really important TBH. I'd take even a 0.001% chance of getting hospitalized over a 0.01% chance.

People generally suck at estimating risks, like overpaying for insurance/warranty they don't need while quite literally eating/drinking/smoking themselves to death. Not getting a free shot to reduce the chance of death or severe illness is like neglecting to back up your private key. It'll be fine until it isn't.

However if one decides to not take the vaccine...


... I strongly believe that they should stick to that decision and not engage in borderline criminal actions of counterfeiting documents to pretend that they aren't really anti-vax. Making or owning fake cards might be ok, selling or using them - probably not. Check the state laws if you're planning to use such a card and there is a good chance you could be violating federal law as well.

What's your angle here? Thinking that if you suck up to sockpuppet hunters then you might avoid kxwkwkxkwkk's fate?

Your assertion that "If you are a legendary member, you need to have received a lot of merit, 1000 if you are a new era newbie, or a minimum of 500 if you created your account prior to the implementation of the merit system" is highly misleading, especially when followed by "If you have received a lot of merit in the past, you are likely to receive a lot of merit in the future, assuming you maintain your posting habits" because the airdrop was not given for post quality and the vast majority of those airdropped legendaries are not likely to receive a lot of actual earned merit. That's all what the data shows.

I don't have a personal bias against legendaries, just stating the plain fact that most of them are shit. Sorry this hurts your fee-fees.

I'm sure Jazmin and Ghoul will explain it to you shortly.

Nonsense. Airdropped merit was given even to the shittiest shitposters and it means nothing. As evidenced by the fact that median earned merit among Legendary members is 19. Goes up a notch to 34 if we take only ones still active this year. >80% of active Legendaries have that title only because of the airdrop.

Merely being a Legendary has no relevance to post quality. You'd think you would know that what with all the account farming.

Reminds me of those morons burning their $100 Nike sneakers. Actually this seems a tad more moronic, because the $100 goes to fraudsters.

Loaded question/straw man/false dilemma. Newcomers who plagiarize don't really contribute (positively as the the question implies). They make the forum a worse place. The user was not banned for contributing, the user was banned for plagiarism. And the user obviously had a choice - plagiarism is not the only way to get ahead.

That's assuming (very generously) that you are indeed a different person and not just trying to troll the shit out of this forum with a bunch of sockpuppets on your way out.

How does wechat solve anything? You could easily sockpuppet multiple chats.

Defamation would be knowingly making false claims about you with the purpose of damaging your reputation. I seriously doubt that Ratimov cares about some random newbie enough to go to such lengths. If he's mistaken that's not defamation. If he's right that's not defamation. Stop spamming with the tone complaints, it's cringy.

It's not an assumption, it literally says so in the document linked in the OP. So either the document is wrong, making the thread useless, or the document is not wrong, making the thread useless. Have fun picking those cherries.

Seriously, is that even a question? Of course if you want to post a response to Ratimov, do it in his thread. That way anyone (who cares) can follow the discussion without it being scattered across multiple threads. Not to mention that by creating and bumping multiple threads you're circumventing the bumping rule.

STOP CREATING FUCKING WALL-OF-TEXT THREADS YOU ANNOYING WHINING BRAT.

If you're replying to Ratimov, do it in his thread. How hard can it possibly be? Do you really think that flooding the forum with new threads will make you look less of a spamming merit farmer?

Sweet. There is still some justice left in this shithole amazing melting pot of ideas.

It's still the same vaccine, just with a different label. Making the whole premise of this thread false and your dramatic bullshit meaningless.

When people invent ridiculous reasons for not proving ridiculous claims (such as being immensely trustworthy outside of the forum) they should not be trusted.

Ooh, are we gonna play the "you're not a bagholder so you can't say bad things about it" game? I love that one.

I rarely posted in the thread and would report posts even when I did, so it's not about that. I don't mind reporting a few posts per user, since "I did it only once" was a very common excuse but I don't think it should take dozens of plagiarised posts to get a ban, or hundreds of spam posts to get a tempban, etc.

Makes me rethink my position towards trust ratings for forum rule violations, despite what "official" guidance might be. I really dislike this forum turning into affirmative action for spammers. If moderation doesn't cut it maybe an ignore system similar to trust system needs to be set up so that you can have posts hidden based on what users in your network consider low value garbage.


I've had a lot of "Good" reports without bans so perhaps the posts got deleted for low value but deemed insufficient proof of plagiarism, not sure.

Try reading the stuff you're posting:

Knowing how much you like Biden and Harris, you will absolutely love President Pelosi.

Not really sure. At one point I saw accounts with 5+ reported plagiarized posts still hanging around so I just gave up on it. When it takes more effort to find and report plagiarism to get them banned than it does for the plagiarist to spin up (no pun intended) a new account to a revenue-earning level (signatures etc), the battle is lost. I don't think it was trivial for nutildah to find this translated copypasta and if that doesn't result in a ban then we'll know.