Can admins remove negative trust ratings/do they remove it?

[denis-z12]

I am sorry if this was posted already but it has been bugging me for a while.

I see a lot of trusted users having negative ratings as well. But not because they are scammers, abusers of rules of any kind but because they did what they thought was right and gave negative ratings to a scammer/spammer/rule abuser...

My questions is this. If I give a negative rating to another user for a reason I think is justified and in return that same user gives me a negative rating as a retaliation what do the forum moderators do in this case, or better how do we deal with such issues?

I cant say for a fact but it seems that is happening quite a lot.
User A gives a negative rating to user B for selling fake software for example. After that user B retaliates and gives user A a negative rating as well and that rating stays with user A forever.
It doesnt seem fair to me. Can a user involve an admin if he thinks he received a fake review and can the admin delete that review?

I think if they could it would benefit the community as trusted members wouldn't end up getting fake reviews that mess up their accounts.

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[LeGaulois]

My questions is this. If I give a negative rating to another user for a reason I think is justified and in return that same user gives me a negative rating as a retaliation what do the forum moderators do in this case, or better how do we deal with such issues?[/quote]

Nothing, it's exactly what the staff will do. As mentioned in the forum rules, feedbacks aren't moderated
surely a few reasons are because:
- they will need to spend the time to investigate issues which can be hard to do, time-consuming.
- if they start to do it from today, moderators will be overloaded with requests like they have never been before

[Bardman]

Vod for example has easily 100+ negative ratings but it doesn't matter since all of them are from not trusted members. I always take any rating, positive or negative with a grain of salt and you should too. Always check reference links and judge for yourself. I wouldn't care too much about negative ratings from not trusted members.

[denis-z12]

My questions is this. If I give a negative rating to another user for a reason I think is justified and in return that same user gives me a negative rating as a retaliation what do the forum moderators do in this case, or better how do we deal with such issues?

Nothing, it's exactly what the staff will do. As mentioned in the forum rules, feedbacks aren't moderated
surely a few reasons are because:
- they will need to spend the time to investigate issues which can be hard to do, time-consuming.
- if they start to do it from today, moderators will be overloaded with requests like they have never been before

I am sure many highly trusted members would not mind helping out in a situation like that with their insights and also suggesting what the proper action would be. If there is no doubt based on the proof provided by User A that user B tried to scam him all members would see that. Moderators wouldn't have to do much more related to feedback if they had the help from the community and the members they know can be trusted to make a fair decision.

I am sure many users are worried whether or not to give a bad rating because they will get surely get one in return and that wont do them any good.

[LeGaulois]

My questions is this. If I give a negative rating to another user for a reason I think is justified and in return that same user gives me a negative rating as a retaliation what do the forum moderators do in this case, or better how do we deal with such issues?

Nothing, it's exactly what the staff will do. As mentioned in the forum rules, feedbacks aren't moderated
surely a few reasons are because:
- they will need to spend the time to investigate issues which can be hard to do, time-consuming.
- if they start to do it from today, moderators will be overloaded with requests like they have never been before

I am sure many highly trusted members would not mind helping out in a situation like that with their insights and also suggesting what the proper action would be. If there is no doubt based on the proof provided by User A that user B tried to scam him all members would see that. Moderators wouldn't have to do much more related to feedback if they had the help from the community and the members they know can be trusted to make a fair decision.

I am sure many users are worried whether or not to give a bad rating because they will get surely get one in return and that wont do them any good.

Feedback, positive or negative, without any link for reference doesn't have much importance. Myself I consider such as useless (aside from a dozen of members) to get an opinion.
Like the majority of users here, I think.

You can post 100 negative feedback on a profile, I won't trust any without to be able to check a reference link and get my own opinion to decide if your feedback is valid to me

[SFR10]

Can a user involve an admin if he thinks he received a fake review and can the admin delete that review?

On most cases "NO" but in extreme cases of abuse "YES": (ex. Red trust spam from user tharani (48 times today))

Trust spam isn't allowed. If I see anyone posting dozens of fake trust ratings (from one account or many alt accounts), I will delete all of their ratings.

Nothing, it's exactly what the staff will do.
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- if they start to do it from today, moderators will be overloaded with requests like they have never been before

Even if this was moderated, only "Admins" have that ability, not staff/moderators (AFAIK).