I would love to let it go and move on, last time QS was on TC's list, TC kindly convinced QS to change one of his ratings against me to neutral rather than negative.  I changed my (only) rating against him to neutral rather than negative as a guesture of good-will (noting that his rating is seen much more widely than mine and has much more impact).  I think this demonstrates the fact that I am willing to bury the hatchet and move on.

However, shortly after TC removed QS, he changed his ratings back to negatives and then added a new negative with yet another alt.  I thought it was only fair for me to change my one rating on him back to negative.

Then TC has readded QS just in the middle of a signature-advertising campaign so my account get's a red "WARNING" flag for those who use default trust and while the campaign manager was understanding that I wasn't at fault in any way, they didn't want to continue to rent my signature space as long as I had the WARNING.  So, in this way, the rating hinders me.  Very muchly so.

I hope that TC or QS can take the time to respond to what you and I and LFC_Bitcoin have written.   Almost everyone who has commented in this thread has said that they think that QS should remove his rating or change it to a neutral.   I add that he also ought to delete his sock-puppet ratings from his alts, as trust-spam is supossed to be against the rules.  Overall, I would like nothing more than to see the end of this. I feel like I've been under attack for no reason for the last approx 4 months.  However, as long as the slanderous ratings stand and are considered "default trust" ratings, then I really have no choice but to keep drawing attention to them and asking why.  One of the really strange issues to me at the moment is how taciturn tomatocage is regarding this---in contrast to last time when he added QS and was able to convince him to let the issue go for the greater good.