Wow that is a lot of quotes up there. I am not sure why anyone would be interested in reading #10-14....maybe someone who did read those wants to do a tl;dr

Lauda called someone a retard (when acting as a moderator) here, and I called him out on it here (I have since deleted the post, however it should be available in the thread history). When I was made aware of the fact that Lauda edited his post to remove him calling that person a retard, I removed my post calling him out and told Lauda that I was only sticking up for the person that he called a retard. I subsequently received a retaliatory negative trust rating from Lauda over something that happened 6 months ago, and that Lauda reasonably had known about for 6 months. When I asked Lauda about the negative rating, he claimed that it was suppose to be a neutral rating, changed it to neutral and told me that I "know the reasoning".

I am not sure if the above warrants for the calling of Lauda to be removed as a moderator. Lauda does apparently spend a lot of time on here, so he would be able to handle reports as he receives them. According to Lutpin, Lauda handles the most reports out of all the moderators, although his most recent mod payment would suggest otherwise.

Lauda is also a blockstream fanboy, and will back the company line of whatever blockstream says, regardless of logic, reasoning, or facts. This is probably going to work in Lauda's favor so someone with a "staff" tag can blindly back whatever blockstream says/wants.....it should probably be the opposite however. Considering that theymos is now an active supporter of blockstream/LN, I think it will work in Lauda's favor.