Having already characterized this case upthread as the
the single worst case of merit abuse anywhere on the forum, I want to emphasize this:
Thank you, Betfair, for reporting this—and most of all (+5), for
translating the Turkish for a sufficient proof. I’ve had my eye on pitiprawn for awhile. It was obvious that he was doing something questionable, at best; just the post titles alone show(ed) that he was openly soliciting merit in some fashion, even without being able to read Turkish. But it would have been difficult to get the evidence,
or even understand what his ploy was, whereas Turkish is not one of the languages in which I have sufficient facility to at least do what I call “human-guided machine translation”.
Surely, I am far from alone in having noticed that something was amiss. I myself noticed pitiprawn sometime before 11 February; but due to the language barrier, I was then only able to adduce that pitiprawn was “running Turkish threads soliciting merit in some fashion”:
Before reading this post, I was already thinking I would like a "Merit-subscription" to your posts. Basically, (almost) anything that you write is worth reading.
You're the second
Top-merited Member, only second to
deeperx (who has red trust and got all his Merit for DeepOnion posts in his self-moderated (censored) ANN-thread). I really appreciate how well the Merit system works for good posters (and I ignore deeperx in my list of good posters).
Thanks. In the time since you wrote that, I handily blew past “deeperx”. Also past “RichDaniel”, the “Hero” Member so
incredibly meritorious that he got
+283 in the span of an hour (
then got red-tagged for his trouble). Unfortunately, within the past 24 hours, I’ve fallen behind
“pitipawn”, a Full Member who seems to be running Turkish threads soliciting merit in some fashion. I’d better work harder!
This is an instructive example for those who want to clean up some of the abuse which is effectually protected by language barriers. Most of all, it is an admirable precedent for users who frequent the “local” forums. If you see something awful, don’t just ignore it!
Nothing will give Lauda a right to put that negative trust to my profile. So don't push further and stop wasting my time.
Just relax and put your tongue back in your mouth. You guys are just talking trash.
Lauda is not here for now so, go find someone else's ass to lick. I can pm you when he answers to this bs.
(Note that that last line was deleted by talatk while I was writing this post; I noticed this just before posting. I have added the red emphasis.)
BREAKING NEWS: #476302 “talatk” has become king of the world and emperor of the universe. He now issues peremptory edicts defining Lauda’s rights, and calling Lauda to answer. Also, telling me what to do.
I’ll grab popcorn.
NOTICE: talatk, please be advised that based on your behaviour here, any PMs, e-mails, or other communications you send to me may be published at my sole discretion. This is a special new policy.
Edit,
P.S.—
#476302 “talatk” was caught participating in the single worst case of merit abuse yet seen (#1076869 “pitipawn”). Having received negative trust feedback, he publicly declared for his own part that he “sent those merits to support pitipawn on the race”. Assuming the veracity of this statement *arguendo*, this amounts to professing oneself to have committed a crime—by way of defending oneself on charges of a slightly different version of the same crime. It is a distinction without a difference.
Aggravating the matter, “talatk” then proceeded to evince not only a self-entitled attitude, but a self-righteous conceit (!) and the presumptuousness of dictating limitations on Lauda’s “right” of action (!!). Not only is it outrageous for one caught red-handed in wrongdoing to behave in such manner: It also demonstrates the polar opposite of remorse.
As things stand, “talatk” was last seen hurling some vapid vulgarity at me and Lauda both (then deleting it).
Based on such publicly demonstrated *wanton and willful self-righteousness about wrongdoing*, plus other bad behaviour, I would not trust this user to scoop a cat litter box.
