[INVESTIGATION] tranthidung seems to be doing the same thing Dabs does.

[Timelord2067]

Background:

Part one:

A week ago I was contacted by tranthidung who asked me to remove my posts in a thread they had started.  I politely enquired as to whether or not anyone else had been approached (they hadn't) and reminded tranthidung that the thread is archived in possibly a half a dozen different places, so were I to delete my posts (I haven't), there would still be copies floating about.  The exchange of messages was polite but short lived.

Part two:

Yesterday, I saw a thread in the lending section: Need $200 loan without collateral for emergency situation - The thread was started by icalical whom I am unfamiliar with.

On their trust feedback page I saw these two entries amongst the others:

icalical

Trusted Feedback:

tranthidung

2022-07-17

Reference

A skillful designer. Smooth service, easy to work with & I totally satisfied with his service. Highly recommended!

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2022-07-18

Reference

A very great client, clear brief, straight forward and even paid full in advance. Also a nice person.

Puzzled (as I had just looked at tranthidung 's trust feedback a week ago and did not see this user), I checked their default trust page for the current week - week 184:

Trust list for: icalical (Trust: awaiting update) (176 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2022-07-23_Sat_05.08h)
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icalical Trusts these users' judgement:
-

icalical Distrusts these users' judgement:
-

icalical's judgement is Trusted by:
1. NEW tranthidung (Trust: +9 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (6) 3112 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

~icalical's judgement is Distrusted by:
-

Source: LoyceV's Trust list viewer.
Get your own Trust list in BBCode at loyce.club/trust.

tranthidung exchanged trust feedbacks and had also promoted icalical to DT2 (and in turn tranthidung receives a green plus one from icalical owing to the DT2 promotion)

With Dabs fresh in my mind, I began to wonder if tranthidung has done the same thing to any other users they have received positive trust feedback from?


I make no assertion that any of these users are aware of what tranthidung has done.

Also, I make no assertion that any of these UID's are alts.


Stedsm

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-08-14

An extremely friendly, transparent, helpful (to both me and community), and prompt person to deal with. He has always proved to work out of the box for all his services he gave, we worked in ccFOUND telegram as their moderators together and he is highly knowledgeable.

https://loyce.club/trust/2021-08-21_Sat_06.09h/171896.html

Trust list for: Stedsm (Trust: neutral) (238 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2021-08-21_Sat_06.09h)
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Stedsm Trusts these users' judgement:
-

Stedsm Distrusts these users' judgement:
-

Stedsm's judgement is Trusted by:
1. eaLiTy (Trust: +3 / =0 / -0) (309 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
2. Best_Change (Trust: +23 / =6 / -2) (652 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)
3. NEW tranthidung (Trust: +3 / =0 / -0) (2394 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

~Stedsm's judgement is Distrusted by:
-

Source: LoyceV's Trust list viewer.
Get your own Trust list in BBCode at loyce.club/trust.

ccFOUND

Trusted Feedback

tranthidung

2021-08-12

Reference

I've been working with ccFOUND since late of May 2021. Payments are always processed on time & smoothly. Beyond payments, they're professional.

Sent Feedback

tranthidung

2021-08-11

tranthidung is a great, professional community manager, expert and advisor. His work ethics, manners and knowledge are really impressive!

https://loyce.club/trust/2021-08-14_Sat_06.20h/3310513.html

Trust list for: ccFOUND (Trust: +1 / =0 / -0) (11 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2021-08-14_Sat_06.20h)
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ccFOUND Trusts these users' judgement:
1. NEW tranthidung (Trust: +3 / =0 / -0) (2383 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

ccFOUND Distrusts these users' judgement:
-

ccFOUND's judgement is Trusted by:
1. NEW tranthidung (Trust: +3 / =0 / -0) (2383 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

~ccFOUND's judgement is Distrusted by:
1. lovesmayfamilis (Trust: +22 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (13) 2073 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

Trust list: backscratchers: users agree, they trust or distrust each other.
Trust list: backstabbers: users disagree, one user trust the other, while the other distrust him.

Source: LoyceV's Trust list viewer.
Get your own Trust list in BBCode at loyce.club/trust.

wwzsocki

Trusted Feedback:

tranthidung

2020-04-06

I have not yet had any trade with wwzsocki but he help me a lot with his kindly advice during my hardest period, in my life. I much appreciated what he did and really trusted him, at any odds.

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2019-08-28

Reference

Very helpful member! His posts help me a lot, even though I am a quite advanced fan of cryptocurrency. I like to discuss and interact with Tranthidung on the forum. I know he is a person you can trust.

https://loyce.club/trust/2020-04-11_Sat_05.25h/131333.html

Trust list for: wwzsocki (Trust: +1 / =1 / -0) (957 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2020-04-11_Sat_05.25h)
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wwzsocki's judgement is Trusted by:

3. NEW tranthidung (Trust: neutral) (1298 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

Trust list: backscratchers: users agree, they trust or distrust each other.
Trust list: backstabbers: users disagree, one user trust the other, while the other distrust him.

Source: LoyceV's Trust list viewer.
Get your own Trust list in BBCode at loyce.club/trust.

https://loyce.club/trust/2019-08-31_Sat_06.04h/131333.html

Trust list for: wwzsocki (Trust: neutral) (599 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2019-08-31_Sat_06.04h)
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wwzsocki Trusts:
11. tranthidung (Trust: neutral) (555 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

Trust list: backscratchers: users agree, they trust or distrust each other.
Trust list: backstabbers: users disagree, one user trust the other, while the other distrust him.

Source: LoyceV's Trust list viewer.
Get your own Trust list in BBCode at loyce.club/trust.

DarkStar_

Trusted Feedback

tranthidung

2022-05-06

Honestly, interest rate from his service is attractive (low) and he is very kindly to loan expansion for me (even some of my loan has value up to $5000 or $6000).

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-01-20

Reference

Repaid another 0.1 BTC no collateral loan.

tranthidung

2020-09-14

Reference

Repaid a 0.1 BTC no collateral loan. Thanks!

https://loyce.club/trust/2022-05-07_Sat_05.06h/507936.html

Trust list for: DarkStar_ (Trust: +65 / =2 / -0) (DT1! (36) 1961 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2022-05-07_Sat_05.06h)
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DarkStar_'s judgement is Trusted by:
115. NEW tranthidung (Trust: +7 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (4) 2878 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

Ratimov

Trusted Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-05-18

Reference

I have a trade with Ratimov who is a good trade partner. My USDT for his XRP. It is a seamless trade.

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-05-18

Reference

Smooth deal. I exchanged my XRP coins for USDT coins offered by tranthidung. He sent first. You can trust him. Thank you.

https://loyce.club/trust/2020-12-19_Sat_04.07h/2627711.html

Trust list for: Ratimov (Trust: +9 / =0 / -0) (DT1! ( 3042 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2020-12-19_Sat_04.07h)
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Ratimov Trusts these users' judgement:

26. NEW tranthidung (Trust: +2 / =0 / -0) (1975 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

I can't find any evidence that tranthidung DT trusts Ratimov (not yet at least) but it's interesting to view that tranthidung does a loan with both DarkStar_ and Ratimov earning them two positive trust feedbacks.

As we will see in a moment, tranthidung does a third (loan or trade) yet another week on from their dealing with Ratimov:


icopress

Trusted Feedback

tranthidung

2021-05-21

Reference

I completed this trade (~ $300) with icopress who went first. It is a seamless trade

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-05-21

Reference

While I'm not inclined to leave g'feedback when I go first, I can't fail to mention tranthidung's commitment to fulfilling trade commitments, (considering that he bought my coins at 20% above market price). A very pleasant experience, I recommend it!

Neither appears to DT trust the other at this point.


cabalism13

Trusted Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-08-15

cabalism13 invited me to join Paxful. We've worked together in a same team since May 2020. Also, I trusted him because he makes many repayments for non-collateral loans from me.

Sent Feedback:

tranthidung

2021-08-31

A trusted user here on Bitcointalk. A co-worker on Paxful and been a very reliable friend for a long time. Offered Services by this user is Quality Based. Hire him and consider the work is done.

https://loyce.club/trust/2020-06-13_Sat_05.02h/1605387.html

Trust list for: cabalism13 (Trust: +12 / =0 / -0) (DT1! (7) 929 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2020-06-13_Sat_05.02h)
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cabalism13's judgement is Trusted by:
20. NEW tranthidung (Trust: neutral) (1507 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

https://loyce.club/trust/2020-07-11_Sat_05.05h/1605387.html

Trust list for: cabalism13 (Trust: +10 / =1 / -0) (DT1! (9) 949 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP) (created 2020-07-11_Sat_05.05h)
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cabalism13 Trusts these users' judgement:
25. NEW tranthidung (Trust: neutral) (1548 Merit earned) (Trust list) (BPIP)

A month apart, these two exchange positive trust feedback - by this stage, both are minimum DT2, so each receives a green plus one, then fourteen months later within a month, both DT trust eachother further cementing their positive trust feedbacks.


...and finally, jayce who for no apparent reason a week ago gives tranthidung positive trust feedback.

jayce

Trusted Feedback

tranthidung

2021-11-11

Reference

jayce is very professional, creative with his design arts & friendly to work with. If you need adjustment, he does it for you shortly. Highly recommended. Top-notch quality

Sent Feedback

tranthidung

2022-07-20

A polite and nice client. Made some design for him and all went smooth.

Neither from what I can tell DT trusts the other, however of the 89 trust feedbacks given to others by jayce, just six of jace's positive trust feedbacks have a reference link ^{(and people tut-tut me for my negatives - all of which have a reference link to actual proof   )}


TL; DR:

As you can see nearly all of tranthidung's nine green positive trust feedbacks came from UID's that they have promoted to DT2 status, or prop up with an extra DT vote which tranthidung profilts from as it inflates their own green (trust feedback) score.

Essentially, tranthidung seems to be doing the same thing Dabs does.

[LoyceMobile]

This looks like Trust self-scratching indeed (at first glance).

A week ago I was contacted by tranthidung who asked me to remove my posts in a thread they had started.  I politely enquired as to whether or not anyone else had been approached (they hadn't)

When exactly did this happen? I was approached too, but saw no reason to censor my posts.

[tranthidung]

My trust list
Is anything wrong when I trust people I worked with and all goes smooth ?

Tell me, if excluding me out of DT1 gang, resolve the drama. I don't wait for your opinion to send my DM to theymos. I don't beg theymos to be in DT1 and it is not my dream. Things I have done are what I have done. The community recognize it or not, it is not a matter with me.  

Many drama like this in the past right? Nothing is wrong if a member is not in DT1, and when they are in DT1, you guys look at their trust list, and start drama. You guys make the forum like a circus.  

My DMs

In my DM to you and LoyceV and others in that thread, I think I wrote my reasons clearly. In fact, that is my topic and when I created that, I did it without any bad intention to bring troubles to anyone. Then, just recently I thought that something can happen so I deleted all my posts in that topic.

I know things can not be erased entirely on the Internet after it was published. But back in days ago, I did not know how to change title of all posts in my topic and because I thought post titles can be keywords for search engines. That is why I sent DM to some posters in that topic.

Later, Loyce taught me how to do this, so I changed all post titles by myself. So is it fine?

When I received your DM, you instantly asked why I sent that DM. Is it on behalf of other forum members? Can't understand why you thought like this.

[LoyceV]

Is anything wrong when I trust people I worked with and all goes smooth ?

It depends: do they have good trust ratings and good trust lists?

Tell me, if excluding me out of DT1 gang, resolve the drama.

It's much more useful for the DT-system if you don't get excluded, but also don't include users just because they've left you positive feedback. I can only speculate why you included some of them, but this is what it looks like.

Many drama like this in the past right? Nothing is wrong if a member is not in DT1, and when they are in DT1, you guys look at their trust list, and start drama.

There's always drama on Bitcointalk But that doesn't mean Timelord2067 (who himself has many DT1-exclusions) can't have a point. It's also something you can (easily) improve.

[dragonvslinux]

Is anything wrong when I trust people I worked with and all goes smooth ?

It depends: do they have good trust ratings and good trust lists?

This is the point here. I wouldn't see it as intentional abuse of the trust system, but more so mis-use of it. Clearly adding users they trust to their trust list, as opposed to users they trust their judgement of.

It also seems that a lot of users do the same, this being just one example. Users adding others to their trust lists not for the reasons they really should be. The irony being that each users trust list is more or less their own business, it's not the same as leaving +/- trust, even if it is "self-scratching". By the looks of it, tranthidung would barely make that list compared to others though.

The real question is does it make tranthidung's trust feedback less reliable (untrustwrothy) by adding users they trust to their trust list? Probably not. But it does probably make their selection of DT2 members unreliable, if they are simply DT2 as they are trusted by tranthidung, as opposed to having trustworthy feedback. This should all be relatively self-explanatory for DT1 members at this point.

Either exclude tranthidung or exclude the newly found DT2 members if you have a problem with it.

[tranthidung]

It's much more useful for the DT-system if you don't get excluded, but also don't include users just because they've left you positive feedback. I can only speculate why you included some of them, but this is what it looks like.

Thank you Loyce but it's done, now I am free to use my trust list when I am not DT1. I remembered after another drama, Hhampuz left DT1 too
About the discussion ^{in another topic} on how many inclusion from DT1 will promote a member to DT2, I think it makes sense. If the threshold for DT2 promotion is 10 ie., no drama with DT1 members and their trust list.  

[Timelord2067]

This looks like Trust self-scratching indeed (at first glance).

A week ago I was contacted by tranthidung who asked me to remove my posts in a thread they had started.  I politely enquired as to whether or not anyone else had been approached (they hadn't)

When exactly did this happen? I was approached too, but saw no reason to censor my posts.

First message 2022-07-24, 21:17:21 (GMT +10) - Request that I remove my posts from their thread.

Second message 2022-07-25, 23:22:59 (GMT +10) - At this point tranthidung states they have not contacted anyone else.

It's much more useful for the DT-system if you don't get excluded, but also don't include users just because they've left you positive feedback. I can only speculate why you included some of them, but this is what it looks like.

Thank you Loyce but it's done, now I am free to use my trust list when I am not DT1. I remembered after another drama, Hhampuz left DT1 too
About the discussion ^{in another topic} on how many inclusion from DT1 will promote a member to DT2, I think it makes sense. If the threshold for DT2 promotion is 10 ie., no drama with DT1 members and their trust list.  

Your vote (simply by having ten or more merits) counts towards others being selected into DT1, so your choices are at work seven days a week year 'round whether or not you are on DT1.

Some months your trust feedback score is lower e.g. +3 while other months when you are DT1 that number jumps to +9 which makes your BPIP score "most trusted" jump higher and in turn your overall "most recognised" score then becomes higher.  The perception when you are DT1 is that your are more trust worthy due to the higher score.

I could demonstrate by doing it with my own received positive trust feedbacks, take a screen shot then return those values to where they were to demonstrate, but I fear some DT Trolls would perceive such a move as an attempt at self scratching on my part and fall out of their perches in indignation.

[tranthidung]

First message 2022-07-24, 21:17:21 (GMT +10) - Request that I remove my posts from their thread.

Second message 2022-07-25, 23:22:59 (GMT +10) - At this point tranthidung states they have not contacted anyone else.

You

This is a very strange request from someone who is DT1.

Have you made this request of others?
...

Me

lol, no request from anyone else. Please don't connect anything to DT role.

It is my topic, and I just realized that there are some sensitive information for others. It does not mean others can do the same like what I did but it will take time for them to do it if they want.

I know about archives on other sites as well. Anyway, nothing to be serious about it. I just don't want anyone can get any trouble because of my topic that was created for no bad intention behind. I think you understand what I meant

I am not good at English but it seems I understood my DM like "Have you made this request on behalf of others?" as I wrote in previous post above, rather than "Have you made this request to others ?"

It seems your question would be the second one? to, not of. I did not reply you like "I did not / have not made the same request to others". If I replied like that, you can judge that I changed my words but it is not in this case. Just a bit of miscommunication with prepositions ^{if there is}

Anyway, as I explained in my DM to you and in my post, the reason is the same.

Not sure why you wrote like I changed my words in two DMs to you.

Some months your trust feedback score is lower e.g. +3 while other months when you are DT1 that number jumps to +9 which makes your BPIP score "most trusted" jump higher and in turn your overall "most recognised" score then becomes higher.  The perception when you are DT1 is that your are more trust worthy due to the higher score.

I am not in Bitcointalk with a reason to be recognized by BPIP. Any logic here. Maybe you mind about ranking on BPIP but I don't mind. Sometimes I look at it but most of time I don't. If I (barely) look at BPIP, I mostly look at the merit ranking page with my curiosity that what is my rank compares to grandfather members with airdropped merit. Not care about trust page, recognized page.  

[AnotherAlt]

My trust list
Is anything wrong when I trust people I worked with and all goes smooth ?

Aren't you mixing up Feeback and Trust System? I am not saying you did it wrong. I also guess you know better than me about Trust and feedback systems.

If you trusted someone with the trading and had a risk of losing money, everything went well. Leave positive feedback (Which you did).
If you see a guy left accurate feedback on others, Include them on your trust list. That's how it should work. Two different forum features to handle two different things. Feedback system to handle trading risk related (Can have some exceptions). Trust system to help to see more accurate feedback. I understand there can be exceptions. Since you are a DT1, You may know better than I or I can have the wrong knowledge. Correct me, please, if I am wrong.

[tranthidung]

If you see a guy left accurate feedback on others, Include them on your trust list. That's how it should work.

Really?

Is it a mandatory condition that I have to look at their trust feedback on others, before including them into my trust list?
How a member use their trust list, trust feedback are only one of things you should trust or distrust that one. They are not only or main decisive factors.

People above have their points that I agree to but your point is wrong in my opinion. Including someone into your trust list means you trust that one. Excluding means you don't trust that one.

Trust feedback is for specific works, trades, deals etc. Trust list inclusion means you trust that one in general ^{but you can always change it if things change}. Hope that I don't misunderstand.

Lastly, a member is not in your trust list does not mean you don't trust that one. A member is not in your exclusive trust list does not mean you trust that one. I think it is serious to put one member into exclusive (distrust) list so I barely do it.

[yahoo62278]

Self scratching makes the trust inclusion look funny, but it's not illegal. I don't agree with it. If I have worked with or been a part of a project with someone for awhile, I normally give em a positive trust rating at some point. I barely add users to my trust list though, very hard to get there.

Honestly DT is the biggest joke anymore. All it does is cause drama by those who are jealous of others stature. It's very obvious we will never be completely happy with whatever system is in place, there are too many wanna be alphas on bitcointalk(including myself) who think they are never wrong. Just scrap DT and move to a reputation based system where everyones feedback counts the same. If someone reads feedback(which they should if dealing with a user for trading or work), then they can judge for themselves how much they trust a person. As it is now, it's easily corrupted and a big joke.

[tranthidung]

Self scratching makes the trust inclusion look funny, but it's not illegal. I don't agree with it. If I have worked with or been a part of a project with someone for awhile, I normally give em a positive trust rating at some point. I barely add users to my trust list though, very hard to get there.

Agree with you here.

Just scrap DT and move to a reputation based system where everyones feedback counts the same.

It is better than the past with old trust system. I recalled that when a DT1 member (or even DT2 member) with high power weight (not sure how it was counted with past trust system), a negative trust feedback will be shown with very big multiplier like -100, -200 in dark red. That causes a lot of panic and drama.

Fortunately, with current trust / feedback system, all is the same (at least in visual display in orange). But again, a drama is moving to a third party site (BPIP - early after the launch of new trust/ feedback system, they used the old trust algorithm for people who missed it. Maybe months later, they changed and applied a new algorithm (or their own) for Recognized page. I don't follow it so I am not sure)

I am not here to be recognized on BPIP
 

[Little Mouse]

This is a very strange request from someone who is DT1.

Have you made this request of others?
...

Me

lol, no request from anyone else.

I am not good at English but it seems I understood my DM like "Have you made this request on behalf of others?"

This part is correct. Seems like you have misunderstood him.

Is it a mandatory condition that I have to look at their trust feedback on others, before including them into my trust list?

The system is very much simple.

If you can trust someone with fund, send them positive feedback. While on the other hand, if you can trust someone with their judgement, you can include them into your trust list.

I recalled that when a DT1 member (or even DT2 member) with high power weight (not sure how it was counted with past trust system), a negative trust feedback will be shown with very big multiplier like -100, -200 in dark red.

I think you are wrong though I can't remember correctly. It was something like as much as the feedback gets older, it gets more value. I can't remember exactly though. But it was not something like with more DT2 inclusion, it will get big multiplier.

[Timelord2067]

Feel free to play the "lost in translation" card if you like - that's just a deflection from the topic at hand being "self scratching".

I see via BPIP that you have removed those users mentioned earlier and I for one thank you for doing so.


Regarding the various questions around points accumulated via positive or negative trust feedback (and even if you don't use BPIP, the point of this thread is that you are infact using the Trust Feedback system).

One positive trust feedback over a ten month period accumulates ten points - one point the day the feed back is posted, then one point per month for nine months thereafter.

It's how the system WAS until a few years ago. Some users had "hundreds" of points whilst others had just ten or twenty points.

Your green +9 is actually 90 accumulated points - nine months from when the last positive was received.


OTOH

A negative trust feedback increases (badly worded) by a factor of two points to the power of however many negatives are received from DT1/2's.

One negative = two points removed.
Two negatives = four points removed.
Three negatives = eight points removed.

That's negatives from DT1/2 members in any given month (see below). (To clarify - one negative per DT1/2 member regardless of however many negatives they post.  The same applies to positive trust feedback from DT1/2)

Effective immediately.


Feel free to correct me if my information is incorrect.


(Below - any DT 1/2 with a negative score don't have their posts counted in the above, but that's another off topic discussion of its own).

[tranthidung]

Feel free to play the "lost in translation" card if you like

Nah. No play of translation card here. I am not born and living in a nation that has native English so probably I am not perfect in English. But honestly so far I don't believe I misunderstand your question with the proposition 'of' and I believe my answer is very clear with the preposition 'from'. If I denied that I did not send any DM to other posters in that topic, I would write "No DM to anyone else" or "No request to anyone else". Make sense?

Still not sure why you used 'of' in your DM to me in that question

Have you made this request of others?

My misunderstanding possibly come from 'of' that you used. I thought it is on behalf of. Sorry if I extrapolate it inaccurately. In my second DM to you, I wrote nothing to be serious and explained it clearly.

I see via BPIP that you have removed those users mentioned earlier and I for one thank you for doing so.

Sorry, removed who?

That's just a deflection from the topic at hand being "self scratching".

I agree (as wrote above) but I think yahoo has a valid point. This drama is because I am in DT1 and when I add one member in my trust list, it means I promote them to DT2. Now, it's gone. I am in blacklist of theymos, forever.

Back to your story, do you think that if someday you is in DT1 and your alt will automatically become DT2, will it trigger another drama? Now, you are not DT1, no drama. So how about future?

I see LoyceV did not add his alt, LoyceMobile in LoyceV's trust list but DarkStar_ add his alt in his trust list as same as you did. Right or wrong, it depends on how you look at it. Personally, I see it is not serious but not adding your alt to your trust list would be a better option. I don't use to trigger a drama card if your alt won't be used to scam anyone. However, if someone want to trigger drama, they will have reason to do that especially if someday you are DT1.

Regarding the various questions around points accumulated via positive or negative trust feedback (and even if you don't use BPIP, the point of this thread is that you are infact using the Trust Feedback system).

It seems you love the past trust system and try to stick with BPIP and old algorithm that I never spent my time to read it thoroughly. If you love it, just stick with it but you should not ask other members to use BPIP and consider the trust algorithm on that site as official one of the forum. What I am using is the current version of Trust feedback system, not an old version years ago.

Reasons why we have a new trust feedback system. Because past algorithms cause drama when people can paint other walls in dark red. How it becomes darker with time, as said, I don't spend my time to learn its algorithm. But now, it is gone from this forum, isn't it?

[LoyceV]

If you see a guy left accurate feedback on others, Include them on your trust list. That's how it should work.

Is it a mandatory condition that I have to look at their trust feedback on others, before including them into my trust list?

Read this again:

It depends: do they have good trust ratings and good trust lists?

Follow the link to read the full description. This forum is all about freedom, but if you follow what it says there, you could call it mandatory. I believe it's necessary for the Trust system to work properly.
I also believe this:

Once you fully understand the system, it's important to start using it:

• Did you do a trade in which you risked funds? Leave feedback!
• Did you see users who left accurate Trust feedback on many accounts? Add them to your Trust list!

Anyone can leave feedback, and anyone can customize their Trust list!

But unfortunately, many people have a different interpretation.

Including someone into your trust list means you trust that one.

You forgot the word "judgement". Trusting someone with money is not the same as knowing they leave accurate feedback. But since you're excluded from DT1, it doesn't matter to the rest of the forum anymore if you follow a different line of reasoning.

Your vote (simply by having ten or more merits) counts towards others being selected into DT1, so your choices are at work seven days a week year 'round whether or not you are on DT1.

A user needs 10 votes to reach DT1, so individual votes barely mean anything. The users that were made DT2 by tranthidung won't reach DT1 any time soon.

[Timelord2067]

BPIP is simply a telegraph repeating what occurs on the forum.  BPIP also does a couple of others things such as rank those scores that occur on the forum and takes the average of three of those scores to create a "rank" of users. 

Sorry, removed who?

According to BPIP, you have removed these users from your DT trust list:



I had assumed you removed those users, however, your next part I've quoted needs clarification:

I am in blacklist of theymos, forever.

Did @theymos tell you that?

Now, you are not DT1, no drama.

Actually yes, I am DT1 this month.



You sound like a DT climate denier when you say that.

A user needs 10 votes to reach DT1, so individual votes barely mean anything. The users that were made DT2 by tranthidung won't reach DT1 any time soon.

While that may be true in this instance, it's straying from the topic of the thread that their trust feedback caused self-scratching.

[tranthidung]

BPIP is simply a telegraph repeating what occurs on the forum.  BPIP also does a couple of others things such as rank those scores that occur on the forum and takes the average of three of those scores to create a "rank" of users.

I don't care about these ranks!

Because if I care about it, I should spend my time to understand what algorithms / criteria they use to calculate ranks that is unnecessary. I don't obsess with those ranks especially they are on BPIP. I have my name here, bitcointalk not on BPIP. They are built and managed by trusted team but it does not mean they are representatives of the forum.

According to BPIP, you have removed these users from your DT trust list:

Sorry. Again, don't rely on third-party resources too much. It's a bug from BPIP and they should fix it ^{I did not know BPIP has that information too. Thanks for sharing}. My trust list is the same from my side, no changes. Change was made by theymos, not by me so their information is not correct.

Did @theymos tell you that?

No. I sent him a DM after that post and it was done a few hours later when he was online.

Tell me, if excluding me out of DT1 gang, resolve the drama. I don't wait for your opinion to send my DM to theymos. I don't beg theymos to be in DT1 and it is not my dream. Things I have done are what I have done. The community recognize it or not, it is not a matter with me.

[Timelord2067]

Speaking of drama - it's considered bad manners to quote a PM (as you have done with my PM's) without a person's permission.

(you neither sort, nor received my permission to mis-quote me)


Thanks also for clarifying theymos did NOT exclude you - that you (if I'm reading you correctly) REQUESTED to be excluded.

[tranthidung]

Speaking of drama - it's considered bad manners to quote a PM (as you have done with my PM's) without a person's permission.

(you neither sort, nor received my permission to mis-quote me)

Yes, this is true, agree. I should not do this!
Initially, in my answer, I did not quote any thing.

When I received your DM, you instantly asked why I sent that DM. Is it on behalf of other forum members? Can't understand why you thought like this.

Later you brought that one on. If you did not have inaccurate paraphrasing of my DM that is very simple to understand, I did not quoted it. If you paraphrase, paraphrase it accurately and don't distort the original meaning, please.

First message 2022-07-24, 21:17:21 (GMT +10) - Request that I remove my posts from their thread.

Second message 2022-07-25, 23:22:59 (GMT +10) - At this point tranthidung states they have not contacted anyone else.