I present the facts as I see them.
I make no assertion that any of these users are aware of what EFS has done.
Also, I make no assertion that any of these UID's are alts.
TL;DRAS with Dabs and tranthidung, I believe
EFS (who is a Staff member here on the forum) is engaging in Trust Feedback self scratching albeit nearly all were already a minimum DT 2 when they were DT trusted by EFS. Some of the more recent additions by EFS have been promoted via EFS' inclusion of them and they appear to have mearly copied EFS' trust feedback trust and distrust lists, then been "rewarded" by EFS with promotion.
This month, EFS' trust feedback score is
+8 / =1 / -1 with their sole negative coming from Lauda (who indirectly plays a part as you will see)
In
week 22 EFS' DT Trust list looked like this:
Then,
a week later, EFS added Lauda to their distrust list:
In
week 44 I placed this *neutral* trust feedback note on their trust feedback page and it passed without incident.
In
week 70, on or around the 15th of May, 2020, sandy-is-fine left positive Trust Feedback for EFS:
| | sandy-is-fine | | 2020-05-15 | | | | Thanks for doing the best you can to keep Digital Goods as clean as possible considering the amount of crap that winds up here. |
by the end of that same week, EFS added seven UID's to their DT trusted list taking their overall tally to nine (one short of being eligible to be in the DT1 lottery)
Notice how three of these seven UID's are ones who prior to this date had left positive trust feedback?
Week 92 - EFS makes just two additions to their DT distrust list:
Gone is Hhampuz but replaced by wolwoo then both Stunna and myself are distrusted. As you can see, like myself, Stunna has left *neutral* trust feedback on EFS' trust feedback page.
| | Stunna | | 2015-07-22 | | Reference | | Used alt-forum accounts to claim PD giveaway multiple times. Untrustworthy. |
(Don't forget my neutral trust feedback concerned EFS attempting to buy accounts while Stunna's OP is interesting in that at some point in the past EFS was known as EAL and they have since July 2015 changed their user profile name.)
Week 104 sandy-is-fine has been added to EFS' DT trust list:
Four out of eight are now trusted by EFS.
Week 147 - xzone is promoted to DT2 by EFS taking the tally to five of the elven EFS trusts. (Five of nine if you don't count the first two they had trusted prior to week 70)
xzone's trust list mirrors EFS' in week 147 when xzone was promoted
but if you look at week 76, xzone has, for the most part, simply copied EFS's trust list
Lachrymose's trust of xzone does not promote xzone to DT2 as Lachrymose is only trusted by nine users and from what I can tell, they had not been DT1 before that week, so it is EFS' vote that promotes xzone to DT2 enabling EFS to have an additional positive trust feedback.
We come to
week 183 where EFS promotes two users. For context, I have done a screen shot of
week 178 for Gencecikmen, week 183 for EFS and this
week 187 for user püsür
Conclusion:It would seem to me that EFS has, bit-by-bit been rewarding those users (i.e. self scratching) who have either left positive trust feedback, or in the later examples mirrored EFS' DT trust and distrust lists.
Comments welcome.
