Jesus Christ  . Sigh. It's embarrassing watching you continually spout this nonsense. I cannot believe you actually think the trolls here are a byproduct of staff 'moderating' trust (which they are not). I'm done with you now. You are clearly not rational.


People can try make predictions based on charts or other such 'tools' but have any of them ever been even remotely right? I haven't seen any.


It's a bingo (but now yet another thread derailed by Techshare).

Why are staff members any different from 'regular' users? They can have valid opinions on this too, but I'm sensing you just don't like staff and the power you think it gives them. There are always two viewpoints to feedback and I'm on the fence on this situation. Is negative justified? Yes. Is it harsh? Possibly. Should it stay? Depends on what redsnow is planning. Many people have concerns about his ability to escrow and that has now been voiced after his error. Yes, the error was unfortunate and relatively small but one that still almost cost someone money and likely would have had a big, bad staff member not stepped in to sort it.


This can apply to regular members too. In fact isn't this pretty much exactly what happend in your case as you got annoyed by someone you thought was troling/harassing you?

You can technically have as many accounts as you wish, but please take note of the following: if you post rubbish or make poor quality contributions from them you'll very likely risk getting them all banned.

Other instances of abuse doesn't validate yours or invalidate the decision against you. I think vod has over-stepped the mark a few times recently but he will usually do something to remedy it. You didn't. 


The only person here with a bullshit narrative and who is 'unable to control their emotional state' is you and I don't have a personal mission (unlike you) but I'm just responding to your bullshit.  You just can't look at this from any other angle and attempt to pass the blame on to others who may or may not be abusing the system. Regardless of that, you still abused it. Is it unforgivable? No, but you could've sorted this out all by yourself but you acted stubbornly and immaturely and are continuing to do do. 


You can add a 3-post newb to your trust list if you want, but I don't think that's the sort of behaviour people on the default trust list should have, especially when it is quite clear that person has only been trusted to boost their own feedback. Stop trying to distract from the point at hand. 


No, I've considered it. You're the only hyperventilating jaded, angry child here. One that by the looks of it is never going to stop throwing a temper tantrum all over the place until he gets his own way. 


I don't see how this system would work. The current one works fine as long as we have rational people who can handle their position responsibly and when they can't they get rightfully removed, but of course people will either love or hate certain staff or people being in control when things do or don't go their way. Armis is probably quite thankful they stepped in for this instance. 


This is your biggest mistake. You think you earned the right to abuse your position and it's irrelevant because your trust and trade history has been left untouched only your ability to leave such trusted feedbacks has been revoked, but that was your own wrong doing. 


What fun buttons are those? The ability to move threads? Whoop-de-doo. Moderators can't do much on this forum apart from that and if we abused our power in even the slightest infraction I'm sure we'd have to account for it.  And besides, I have - or you had - the same power as me as does anyone who is on defaultrust and if I abused it in the same fashion as you did I would likely be removed from the list and maybe even as a moderator, that is of course unless I would be willing to see the error of my ways and compromise, which you didn't do. The difference between me and you is I can likely handle the situation maturely without having to resort to feedback abuse in an attempt to get somecone to do what I want (which is what you did by your own admission). Someone wants to troll or harass or state I'm selling something overpriced? Go right ahead. I can rise above it or deal with it without resorting to the feedback system. 

Maybe we should just agree to disagree because this isn't going to ever go anywhere. You think you're right and hard done by and I think you over-reacted and used the system as blackmail and clearly neither of us are going to change our opinion on the subject but I'm getting bored of rephrasing the same old argument to your rehashed points especially over such a petty matter and I'm sure you feel the same. 

Haha. Agreed. I think bitcoin will benefit from being highly speculative in its early stages (which I believe we are still in), but it's likely it will - or at least I hope it will - stabilise at some point in the future to be seen as a valid currency/store of value. I just hope when it does it's worth much more than it is now  .

I don't think anyone does when it comes to the price/valuation. I don't really go/post in the Speculation sub becsuse it seems to be just kids saying the same three things you mentioned day in day out thread after thread.

They do look pretty sweet and this campaign was a nice and unique addition to all the others. If I wasn't a loyal PrimeDice participant I would've been all over this campaign  . Hope to see it return in the future at some point. Maybe you could consider longer term deals to get more exposure or something?

Mistakes can cost people a lot of money here and people are right to question your ability as an escrow. It's easy to say in retrospect that you would've paid but your previous comments make me not so certain. 0.8 isn't much and it's possible you would have just paid it to save your rep but what if a signature campaign or an ipo goes bad next time where there's a lot more money at stake?

I think that's the plan and it would/does work well but when a few people on there have huge trust lists and they add everyone who has left them feedback it really dilutes the quality of the list and opens it up massively to issues and abuse. If you don't reasonably trust someone and aren't willing to partially stake your rep on the line in doing so you really shouldn't add someone to your trusted list.

Have you not seen the price? That's why.


Yeah I agree. Some people just get excited by the activity, though some people have an agenda or just like to troll. It certainly wouldn't surprise me if some people are getting paid to troll/AstroTurf.


As BadBear said you can report people who are seemingly just posting the bare minimum but remember newbs are always going to newb and you don't need to write an essay for each individual post, but I agree with you if people are just putting next to no effort in but this can happen with or without signature campaigns and usually a warning or short temp ban will make them reconsider their contributions.

You're not offering them currently but have admitted you may in the future and I think it's very likely you will, and in that case the feedback is an apt warning. What he wrote seems accurate and fair:

Refused to take personal responsibility when he messed up an transaction he was handling escrow for. The situation resolved itself because of a policy exception by a forum administrator.

He may be a honest person however should not be trusted to hold funds for others nor to handle any kind of escrow.

I agree with what he said and think you're likely a decent person but you did refuse to answer certain questions which makes me question your suitability as an escrow and for that reason I wouldn't trust you as one and would advise using someone else and I think his feedback is a valuable warning to others in this case so they can take it into consideration.


How so? Just because he wasn't involved and moreia has forgiven you doesn't invalidate your mistake or the concerns that arose from it.


But we never got the chance to see what happened if the situation wasn't resolved by BadBear. You yourself admitted you don't know what you would have done so you could've 'run' had it not been resolved. What if you lose a 10btc deal next time? You may run then rather than have to pay it back out of your own pocket. Should the feedback be removed until this happens again to see how you will react? I don't think it should.

If it's justifiable and there is genuine concern, but if it isn't the feedback will very likely get brought up here and the reasoning questioned much like this thread now. If people abuse the feedback system over personal issues it usually comes back to bite them.


It's not obvious and it's still a concern that you are still considering the escrow once this all blows over. Just because you won't do accounts anymore isn't the problem. What happens if you screw up on something else and make an even costlier mistake? The issue here was your error not that accounts are insecure (they're pretty secure once handled right).

Haha agreed with biz. Though I agree places can get messy with this stuff creating their own subs also seems unnecesary and you'd likely notice how little of this stuff there actually is and wouldn't justify having their own sections if they were to actually be moved into newly created ones.

You need a minimum of 775 posts/activity for Legendary, but even that is not guaranteed as the time is random when you achieve the level so could be much more than that.

hilariousandco

Thanks.

How to gain reputation? Easy. Become reputable. If you can use PayPal that also means you have the cash. People wont use PP because it's easily reversible. I've seen DannyHamilton offer to sell bitcoins for cash in the post before so I'm sure you could find someone to do the deal on here that way. Make a thread in the Currency Exchange with how you can pay and see what happens (but obviously don't send your money to untrusted newbs or use a reputable escrow if needed).


It was a proposal I think. Not sure it's definitely changing yet.

I said may start in the future and you're still currently offering services regardless. Do you plan to keep doing so after the terms expire of these current jobs or are you planning to restart your service in the future because this is the concern?

It does seem like a conflict of interest if he's your friend and it's arguable as to whether redsnow is deserved of this trust but he did do something wrong regardless and I think he lucked out greatly on the situation. I think it was only a matter of time before something like this happened and could've been much worse and we never got to find out what red ultimately would have done had the account been lost. Redsnow stated a couple of times that he he himself didn't know what he would do if BadBear hadn't've of stepped in and couldn't answer whether he would've paid back the money which is a bit disturbing since he is meant to be guaranteeing it. That being said, he did close his escrow of his own accord which showed maturity but it also seems that he may start his escrow again at some point in the future which may not be a good idea for reasons already stated and in that case the feedback may be a good warning for people to use caution. The trust currently doesn't leave him marked as untrustworthy either but an orange warning which may by apt for the reason just stated.

But what if what you left is completely wrong? Or you made a typo  .

You can read over this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=495948.0

You get a max of 14 activity points every two week period. Next period starts tomorrow and you can get another 14 then. Activity is what defines your member group and you can move up ranks the more you get.