Dear Brother Thermos, will you please admit that Trust Ranking has utterly failed in its ostensible purpose of scam prevention?
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In the end why are you so bothered? Your buyers can see your feedback and see that you are a reputed seller.
If TECSHARE doesn't deserve Default Trust, almost nobody does. Especially not that begging, hectoring collectivist Bitchnellski.
I'm not bothered, but rather amused at the absurdity of the fiasco which is the BTCT Trust ranking system.
Satoshi, after years of others trying to fine-tune and prevent gaming of decentralized online trust consensus systems, cut that Gordian Knot with his PoW blockchain.
What incendiary irony that His Holy Forum struggles with and bickers over its centralized, politicized, at-best minimally useful Trust ranking system.
Yes, yes. We know. It's
For The ChildrenTM (IE noobs). Of course.
How's that working out for us? Are we free from the Paycoins of the world yet? Has the trust system done anything but sow conflict and create rancorous distractions?
Did Satoshi teach us nothing about the unworkability of such systems?
Please trash the stupid thing and be done with it. Let those who haven't learned use the WOT, and those who have the appropriate feedback threads.
You cannot automate this. Nobody can, although many have tried. Stop wasting (y)our time and pissing people off with these vain high-maintenance attempts.
I have been trying to say this for a while but all I get is attacks for it. I wish Theymos would start fixing things BEFORE people attack me instead of always after and just pretending like the flawed system didn't contribute. I do appreciate the fact that you are at least trying to do something, not that it really helps me at this point beyond not having to watch the community destroy itself. We don't need default trust. We don't need "scambusters". People should be taking responsibility for themselves.