Judging from the fact that this thread isn't bashing Lauda for being a failed extortionist and troll, I'd say many people aren't familiar with Lauda's antics here. He wasn't a smart guy or knowledgeable about how Bitcoin worked (anyone who saw us argue technical issues in Slack chats should be very clear on that). He was just a guy who harassed anyone here who tried to build anything. He literally attacked me for being a reputable escrow agent, for making coins for the community, for donating free energy to a community Bitcoin mining project, and even safeguarding the forum's treasury funds. If Lauda is significant for anything here, it's for chasing away more contributing members from this forum than any other single user.
I need to address this bullshit for Lauda's legacy. He was a very smart person who taught a lot of people good security measures, and that was the issue. Theymos helped his employee for the first time here, sending out a PM to multiple users demanding we remove our negative trust from OG.
It's important we combat this misinformation before it gets archived.
OgNasty, Lauda, Vod, Anduck:
None of you "strongly believes that [any of the others] is a scammer", which is the criteria for negative trust. You're just holding never-ending, self-perpetuating grudges for tiny past grievances which have blown up for no good reason.
I'd prefer not to start making top-down administrative DT changes, but I can't have these "grudge" ratings stand in DT, so I will just manually remove you from DT if you don't (semi-)voluntarily remove these ratings. Do what you want with your trust lists, and quibble as much as you want in posts about your feuds, but negative trust ratings are for serious accusations.