This topic is my question about: is it ethical to set conditions for tag removing?
For example, if I have tagged user as a merit abuser or as a bot farmer and this user PM me with "Sorry, I won’t do that anymore."...
Is it ethical to put a condition to the user like: "I will remove the tag if you will earn 10 merit from at least 5 users"?
Or I should always ignore such PMs ?
What do you do in such cases?
Personally, I ignore such messages.
And I consider all this "trade" conditions unfair and a little unethical. The conditions should be the same for everyone - a good trust feedback describes only facts. If a person has done something bad, then subsequent good actions in no way cancel this fact.
Therefore, if a person has changed for the better, then I think it is right to give him a new positive review, but not to remove the old one. This is fair.