I'm managing one of the bounty campaigns and one of the translators got a red trust for excessive and blatant merit farming.
In my opinion, this person should not get any stakes.
If you've set at start the rules that negative feedback makes users lose their stakes, they you may have to proceed, else others should give you negative feedback for cheating them.
If you didn't set such a rule and you find such a rule fair, ... it's harder to change the rules in the middle of the game, but maybe you give him the stakes until now (since there were no rules).
But this guy is abusing me and threatening that he'll get me a negative trust. Just seeking suggestions on what are possible
courses of action for me here. Suggestions are welcome.
This is a more complicated story. Negative feedback, especially retaliatory negative feedback does happen and you should have thought about that when you started to manage the campaign.
After all negative feedback is somebody's personal opinion - fair or unfair - and it's not regulated. And yes, I know that this can make your account useless (for bounties), depending on who that red trust is (and that's why I know it's more complicated).
And I think that in most cases the feedback from DT (and maybe high ranks too, I don't know for sure, maybe somebody gives more exact info) is the one that makes the account become "red".
If you can be easily threatened by a cheater (if it's the case), then maybe bounty campaign management is not for you. Sorry if it sounds harsh...
Maybe somebody can give clearer info about when negative feedback makes the account red and when it doesn't.