Good first step.  ATM it looks like your trust rating might have improved, too.

Somebody earlier posted a good quote about when you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is to stop digging.  That is really good advice!  It has served me well in life!

Later on I suggest you reread these entire threads.  You'll find you may not remember everything you said and did.  When you are angry you really are temporarily insane.  You have to ask yourself how well temporary insanity serves you in life when you have problems.  It doesn't!  When you feel that way, pretty much everything you are thinking of doing or saying is going to make your problem worse - so do nothing until you calm down.  There are relaxation therapies you can undertake that will teach you how to stay calm and relax when something upsets you.

Sorry for all my unsolicited advice.  I know it might not be welcome.  But it's served me well in life, and if your goal is to have a trusted reputation in any enterprise, I think this will help.

Bytecoin is so decent I think we'll even decide not to make a big deal about the fact that there's some new coin that has copied the name.

Fortunately, copying's not theft, so no worries!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4

But BTE != BCN.  BTE stands for peace, decency, niceness, and octagonalism.

Bytecoin, the official coin of peace, niceness, and decency.

I can say that because I seem to be the only guy posting about it.

Somebody owns all those Bytecoins, though, and I notice that mining rate has gone way up and price on cryptsy has nearly doubled since I started posting about Bytecoin again.

Seriously guys, we're probably not going to make a fortune, here.   But Bytecoin remains my favorite altcoin.  If my opinion alone is enough to inspire that level of confidence, I'm flattered, and a bit frightened, I guess.

If you've benefited from the rise in price, please share the wealth and toss me a BTE or 2.0 to 8VofSsbQvTd8YwAcxiCcxrqZ9MnGPjaAQm.

Yes, I think so - Put (nearly) whatever you like in my signature on bitcointalk for a week, for 10.0 BTE.  PM to make an offer.

I agree!  This can be just a mistake to look back on.

No, you are angry because you don't know how to control yourself in the face of adversity, or learn from your negative experiences.


Oh, don't be such a drama queen.  I gave you a lot of helpful information about how to build a real, good reputation.  You could expend the effort, or you could whine about it.

Why do you feel entitled to have other people do your research for you?

They are telling you now, and you are yelling at them and getting angry at them.

Do you always treat people badly when they give you helpful information?

So you don't want to be trusted at all?  Because who is going to trust an angry guy with a chip on his shoulder who yells at everybody and can't control himself?

If you are wanting to build up a reputation (not talking about the reputation system here - I'm talking about a real reputation), then in order to do that you'll need to invest some time to do research!  You'll have to satisfy the wants of other people.  You'll have to find out people's preferences and beliefs and desires.

You've now learned some of those preferences, the hard way.  If that motivates you to expend more effort into researching your customer base, you can probably make that one tiny mistake made by a young experienced guy at the beginning of a very successful career.

A really good reputation goes to someone who researches his customers and learns how to please them.  Arguing with them is the exact opposite of that.

Here's a great article I read recently that might be helpful to you:

http://tucker.liberty.me/2014/09/24/how-to-be-a-great-employee/

The author of the article was once told he was "useless."  Watch his response carefully and see if it benefited him or not.

However I chose to handle it, I certainly hope I wouldn't fly into a rage or throw a temper tantrum about it.  I'd want to have all my wits and faculties about me so I could think as rationally as possible about how to solve my problem and better my situation.  Making demands, telling people what to do, and punishing people typically doesn't motivate them.

I notice that you don't seem to have a lot of empathy or understanding for the other person's point of view.  You say "no reason" - you are dismissing his reasons as illegitimate and expending no effort to understand his point of view, what would satisfy his concerns, what would make him want to deal with you again or speak positively about you.  That doesn't speak very well of you.  I don't need a reputation system to know that I wouldn't want to deal with someone who behaves the way you are acting.  You don't seem to have any desire to learn and improve; only a desire to get what you want regardless of how it makes other people feel.

Nobody can make you angry.  That is a decision you make yourself in response to frustration.  It is a habit you are in, and it is a habit you can train yourself out of.  It doesn't benefit you; instead, it makes you irrational.  It also leads you to engage in behaviour which will make people think less of you.

Think about it - am I going to want to do business with a man who is out of control, who can be controlled by the actions of other people?  Wouldn't I prefer someone who is collected and together and in control of himself?

Do you control yourself, or do others control you?

You are managing to appear to be someone who cares only about yourself and who will fight with those who trade with you if they do not do exactly what you want.  How does that make people want to deal with you?

Right now you are establishing a reputation as an emotional basketcase.  Pull yourself together, man!

Demands don't get you very far in life.

Especially when you demand that people not share their (very subjective) personal opinions.

Trust is not an entitlement program!

I think I should rent my signature out for Bytecoin again!

No problem.  People who want to continue to have government regulation and not have anonymity can stick to using people who are regulated by their government.  You want it, you guys all agree together.  Meanwhile, people who feel that the free market is adequate regulation can stick to that.

And suddenly it looks like somebody is mining Bytecoin again.

If you have any you don't want, I'll take them.

That is the same reaction I get, and there has never been any hint of controversy.  Sometimes we have a laugh about "worthless internet money."  But nobody in person has ever intimated to me that Bitcoin should not exist or people should not use it.

That's how Coinbase has also worked as long as I've used them.