Quote from: WoodCollector on February 05, 2015, 01:28:18 AM

Quote from: dogie on February 04, 2015, 11:11:46 PM

Quote from: WoodCollector on February 04, 2015, 10:27:20 PM

Theymos, i think this is almost a must if you expect this forum to continue to have any credibility in the future. Regardless of how many alt accounts are used to vote against it. This is about one of the only ways this place will survive with any credibility.

I've said this in another thread, the problem with surveys is people are only willing to accept votes that validate their own opinions as valid - the others are just fakes or shills, right?

Not at all, in fact its quite the opposite. Myself as an example. I dont care how the system gets fixed, It can be removed, modified, set where the user has to determine their default list, turned upside down, or covered in frosting served with a cherry. The fact is that something needs to change with the current system as it has been proven time and again that it does not work and has turned this forum into an MMORPG where trust rating equals virtual points and a game to be collected. Mabye users dont approve of the method that theymos provided to fix it, that could very well be legitimate and i can see their argument. the fault is that the system should be left alone and that no changes are needed. 90% of people who want to agree to that extent are the ones who benefit from doing business with CITM and who have spent hundreds of hours gaming the system.

I hope that you realize that you just said in your above post that was quoted by dogie that the opinions that disagree with you were manipulating the poll while the people who agreed with your opinion were acting honestly.

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Please do not try and twist words and join the communion of unholy trust farmers in doing so. I personally have nothing against you and still consider you a valuable contributor to the real bitcoin community with your setup and trouble shooting threads. They have even helped me get set up in my recent purchase of a small mining farm. It would be a serious shame to see you join the dark side of totalitarian opinionists who think that their semantics are law and spend hundreds of hours gaming the trust system.

This sounds a lot like that as long as dogie does not take an opposing view of any debate then he is respected, however the minute he disagrees with your opinion then you lose all respect for him. Am I close?

Quote from: WoodCollector on February 05, 2015, 01:28:18 AM

If you cant agree that something needs to change with the trust system as it is, no matter if it is what theymos suggested, other solutions, or done away with completely, just that something needs to change than maybe i had you wrong and you are not the intelligent professional that i thought you to be and that would be my own misjudgment. I am only human and i have misjudged people before, but i really would like to think that i am not wrong in this instance.

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Sure the current trust system is not perfect, however it is something that works the vast majority of the time. It is a system that has generally stopped scammers in their tracks once it was discovered they were trying to scam, or were actually scamming. The number of scams that were on the forum have gone significantly down since the current system was implemented.