I as TPTB_need_war submitted a Positive trust rating to ion.cash, with a rebuttal explaining that Smoothie was taking revenge and abusing the Trust system. When that Trust rating did not publicly appear within 8 hours and Smoothie did not remove his Negative rating on ion.cash, I as TPTB_need_war submitted a Negative trust rating to Smoothie
as documented upthread. Both of those were worded as rebuttals explaining that Smoothie was abusing the intent of the meaning of the Trust system.
Now after sleeping, neither of those Trust ratings as submitted by TPTB_need_war have appeared publicly. They do appear if I login as TPTB_need_war. Does anyone know if this is due to some action or failure of action of the part of the mods? Or is this an automated function of the forum that someone with 0 trust can't make a public Trust report?
If the latter, I would appreciate if any of you would go put a Positive trust rating on my TPTB_need_war username. Several of you have done dealings with me involving
BTC.
If the former, then any of you who would like to test the fairness of the mods, please consider also submitting the Trust ratings I described above but in your own words and reasoning, until we can convince Smoothie to take his grievances with me out of the Trust system which is designed for proven scamming, not for ego battles.
If the Trust system is allowed to devolve to ego battles, then it becomes meaningless. I am confident that is not the desire of the forum owner Theymos. Rather if there is some corruption involved here that is blocking my attempts to post rebuttals to the Trust system, then of course they will lose because I will have the users on my side in the end because I am the real McCoy and I will deliver the Bitcoin killer whether they like it or not. They could ban me from the forum and it won't stop me from winning. I will win. Mark my word. And Smoothie will eat crow. If it the last thing I do in life. Death or bust is my motto now.
on the contrary, negative trust on the sole basis of "Huge ego" is abusive.
However I certainly share his view that his behavior indicates untrustworthiness. A lot of untrustworthiness. But that's just my opinion and I can't prove that he shouldn't be trusted so I don't give him negative trust.
Your logic is correct on the fact that the Trust system is not designed to be a metric of how thin skinned people are and how they get their noses bent out of joint because they don't like confident people who do what they say and say what they mean.
In terms of your opinion of me, you are conflating ego with factual statements. I don't know why when someone makes factual statements, they have to do it timidly and sugar coat it so that people don't get offended by the fact that some people have more knowledge in fields where they are expert than other people.
Experts don't have time to worry about your butt hurt feelings. I mean I don't have anything against you. And I prefer to have amicable relations. But you come here and write an entirely illogical opinion that just because I am not timid in my bold statements, that somehow is correlated with untrustworthiness.
One of the reasons a person becomes more bold is because when I post facts in a sanguine or even dispassionate tone, I get attacked because I am perceived by men to be in a weak posture. So knowing I am going to be ridiculed and attacked, I start off in an attack or masculine posture to discourage the tail waggers from thinking the tail wags the dog. This is the nature of how competition about ideas takes place in this dysfunctional forum, because men unfortunately don't know how to have level-headed factual discussions here. Consider how tiring it gets after posting 100,000 posts in the past several years to deal with all the Dunning-Krugers who all want to push their ignorance on the expert. How many times can the expert patiently explain to every one of the 10,000s of Dunning-Krugers that cross his path. Come on be realistic in your assessment. Walk in the other guy's shoes.
If you had a rational mind, instead you would read my signature line and go research my history on this forum since April 2013. I have never done something untrustworthy in those 2.5 years. The only incident that is a blemish on my record is the BCX fiasco (was in 2013? I forgot) in which I was trying to see if any of his threats were real and I was in public discussions with smooth et al about the potential for any of the threats to be real. In the process of that, I did discover the more remote potential to unmask anonymity of Cryptonote using combinatorial unmasking which I relayed to smooth. And for which if I am not mistaken I was reward 10
BTC by the trio smooth, jl777, and rpietila because I we had that agreement before I revealed the weakness I had identified. Apparently some Monero folks were angry about my involvement in that and that I earned anything from that. At that time, I was severely suffering from Multiple Sclerosis and the 10
BTC was very helpful at that time. Also I suspected but never confirmed that some felt I used that incident to hoodwink them into paying me that. The fact is that my suggested weakness and fix ended up in a Monero Research Labs report and I believe recently some Cryptonote coin may have implemented my suggested fix because it is also the way to enable pruning. I heard pruning is coming to Monero, so perhaps you can thank me somewhat for that, although I haven't checked to see how they are accomplishing it.
If you bothered to check my history as a software developer, you'd see I am 50 years old with a history of major commercial software success with some software shipped to millions of users.
Even entertaining the notion that I am untrustworthy is entirely bullshit. And it is very disrespectful to your elder who is very accomplished in the software world and also very expert in the crypto-currency world by now.
It is great you've doubted me. Just goes to show that both you and Smoothie don't do your homework before you open your mouths. You two are lazy and immature. Which is why we got into this bitch slap war in the first place.
I am like Steve Jobs. I speak frankly. I am also very amicable to those who are amicable to me. I am also reasonably humble, but not excessively so. When I been working hard on something for years and have major breakthroughs, I will of course exude a bit of cockiness. I am sort of like a Michael Jordan in that way. I carry a bit of swagger. But other times I am bit humble. Depends on my testosterone level perhaps. Perhaps on whether I've released in some intense daily exercise yet or not (e.g. I am headed out for a run now and I probably really need it to relax my testosterone level). Perhaps also depends on how the other party is relating to me, such if they are being a lazy jerk who doesn't read and then blames their failure to read on me. I dunno. And I don't care. I am interested only in the facts and production of results. All that time wasting emotional crap is for men who have menstruation. And none of that has anything to do with trustworthiness. Just so happens that my personality is my personality. Like it or hate it depending on your personality and cultural background, but that is orthogonal to trustworthiness.
Smoothie (and just about every person) have problems with orthogonality in logic. Delegation and decentralization are orthogonal concepts. Personality and trustworthiness are orthogonal concepts. Sometimes they are correlated but not always. ASS-U-ME and you are inherently illogical. Separation-of-concerns and orthogonality of logic are critically important concepts and skills for expert computer programmers.
Also bear in mind I am not your stereotypical nerd. Like some others, I am also a testosterone laden athlete (was before the M.S. and appears my M.S. is in remission as of several days and thus my athletics is starting to ramp up again).
Haha, Sybil attack him/trust system.
Germane.
