The ignore button is great, and my ignore list is huge. I can't even keep up with all the shitposters that should be put on ignore--they just keep coming and coming, like annoying enemies that keep respawning endlessly in old NES games.
Another forum feature that the latest batch of trolls has discovered is the self-moderated thread. I would advise most DT members or anyone who doesn't agree with the anti-DT trolls to avoid threads like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103988.0, because of stuff like this:
(26 posts by 9 users with 5 merit deleted.)Obviously they've found a little bit of power and intend to use it to the fullest to censor anyone who disagrees with them. And yes, I've made self-moderated threads but I give a lot of leeway to members and basically don't want the same old trolling and shitposting in my threads. Disagreements are fine, but zero-value posts and rants that I've read 100 times already are not. With these guys and their threads, it's not worth the effort to even post in them, since there's a high chance your post will get deleted. It's certainly their right to self-mod as they see fit, but I think they're just doing it to screw with DT members and the Meta regulars.
Edit: As an example of what gets deleted from that thread, here's an excellent post by HCP that I gave merit to:
Quote from: gwsukabokepjepang on January 30, 2019, 09:16:40 PM
give a good reason why my real customer feedback showing untrusted?
And your feedback showing as trusted? you did not even done any transactions with him.
or are you just defending this forum even though i have got a point?
Because there is no actual way of proving that you even conducted a trade... if ALL ratings were automatically set as trusted, a scammer could simply create 10s or 100s of fake accounts and leave themselves 10s or 100s of "positive" trust ratings, artificially increasing their trust rating. And you think this would be a better system? Huh
The whole point of DT members tagging "dodgy" users is to try and help newbies by raising a red flag about the trustworthiness of a user. It does not mean the user is a scammer necessarily... it simply means that someone on the "Default Trust" list thinks that person is untrustworthy. Hopefully, it would encourage newbies to investigate and do their due diligence before trading/conducting business with a tagged account.
Current reasons that some DT members hand out red trust:
- User committed a scam
- User was spamming
- User was promoting a scam
- User was using an alt account to do something untrustworthy (merit abuse, trust abuse, campaign abuse etc)
- User asked for non-collateral loan
- User bought/sold (or tried to buy/sell) an account
With regards to this last reason, some, but not all, DT members regard this as untrustworthy... because historically, a large percentage of "bought" accounts have been used to scam or spam or both. Buying/selling accounts is not against the rules per se... but some DT members will tag bought/sold accounts as they do not consider them trustworthy. Generally, they will include a reference and a note to indicate that the account was bought/sold.
Imagine you have a "Legendary" account with green trust... suddenly pops up on the Loan section looking for a 1 BTC loan. Potential Lender checks their history, sees they have a history of positive comments and trades from 2 years ago... thinks "yeah, looks legit".
Now imagine that account was bought yesterday by some random guy who found out about Bitcointalk last week... do you think it is fair that that account has "positive" green trust? Huh Did the current "owner" actually earn all that trust? Huh
Update on that thread:
(33 posts by 14 users with 11 merit deleted.)
