Dear Theymos,i have a good idea.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I'm out of this board

Sweet.

Funny how the OP likely created this thread in order to get merits and is finally getting some one year later.  The account hasn't even been active for months now.  Maybe this thread needs to be locked?  

Edit:

My bad
But, hey, it was a "good" post after all, totally worthy of merit

No criticism from me as far as giving him merits--I got fooled as well when I started reading the thread and didn't realize it was from last year until I got about halfway through the first page. 

[qwk]

Funny how the OP likely created this thread in order to get merits and is finally getting some one year later.

My bad
But, hey, it was a "good" post after all, totally worthy of merit

The account hasn't even been active for months now.  Maybe this thread needs to be locked? 

Seconded.

[xtraelv]

The thread does contain some valid point that I would like to counter.

I think trust is very different from distrust.

Voting on trust and distrust is problematic for a number of reasons:

1) A large number of accounts on this forum are due to account farming.
2) Senior accounts can still be bought.

While people might not want a particular person to represent them but that doesn't make their historic tags invalid.
Voting someone off the DT list also undoes all of the good work they have done.

I'd like to see more agreement between DTs on tagging scammers so the worst ones where there is agreement that they are scammers are tagged forever.

When the forum moved from the previous version to the current version this was taken care of with the "oldscammertag" profile.

Perhaps there should be an option where if enough DTs vote someone is a scammer a permanent tag is used. (Reserved for the worst offenders)

[bitmover]

Perhaps there should be an option where if enough DTs vote someone is a scammer a permanent tag is used. (Reserved for the worst offenders)

I think this is not necessary, as two or three dt can tag someone who made a very high offense. Not all dt are going to leave dt at same time, so it's very high unlikely a multiple tagged user gets ride of his tag.