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Quote from: Bicknellski on May 30, 2015, 07:00:21 AM

3. REMOVE THE DEFAULT TRUST and let TRUST be open to all no hierarchy. Too much time is wasted on who is or isn't on the default list.

You spend 50% of your time complaining everyone around you is a shill or an alt, so it seems hypocritical that you want a trust system based on a popularity contest / who has the most accounts.

It's not clear that removing defaul trust results in a system based on a popularity contest. From what I can see, there's no reason why, in principle, my trust network has to have *any* overlap with yours.

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Quote from: Bicknellski on May 30, 2015, 07:00:21 AM

4. Have a wider range of volunteers as mods not just friends of friends / old boys and have a mentoring system for mods in place.

Its not possible to simultaneously increase the quality of moderators while also adding casual moderators willy nilly. Choose one opinion, they currently contradict.

It's not clear that increasing the number of people who can do some moderating is equal to "willy nilly".

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Quote from: Bicknellski on May 30, 2015, 07:00:21 AM

6. REMOVE ALL PAID IN THREAD ADS see Dogies guides as an example. Causes an unusual amount of spam.

Was that entirely at random, just off the top of your head? And do you want everything posted on CoinDesk and hotlinked from bitcointalk? Because thats how you get everything posted on CoinDesk and hotlinked from bitcointalk. Not that I've had ads in my guides for months.

I think this gets to the heart of the matter, Bicknellski has made it more than clear about how he feels about you, you seem to be bowing to pressure to respond---but bickering at him doesn't make you look any better and, if anything, you're validating his gripes whereas if you ignored them (his post here was something like a week old already) they'd probably be less noticed.

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Quote from: Bicknellski on May 30, 2015, 07:00:21 AM

Off Topic:

As was mentioned elsewhere, simply stating that your post is off topic does not prevent it breaking off topic rules. If you find yourself having to write "off topic" and you know its going to be disruptive, don't post it or find the correct home for it.

Seems the same might be said for replying to said post (and so, recursively, I'm guilty too, I guess---hehe).