I actually agree with Lauda's comments here. The Turkish community does seem to be one massive circle jerk who usually can never take any sort of even vague criticism of themselves (and you can't deny it when you've pathetically created an alt to do exactly this). I've seen some utterly stupid nonsense come out of a fair few Turkish users (Eal included) when they've had their behaviour questioned (apparently everybody knows everybody in Turkey and can vouch for the others being legit and Turkish users don't have any alt accounts lol).
Well the thing about the turkish community is that a negative rating from someone like Lauda is not going to change the fact that they all trust each other, it will also not change the fact that few outside the Turkish community will trust any of them with significant amounts of money. On the other hand, Lauda has left positive trust for many within his group and this trust will affect how everyone else (by default) views their rating.
Lauda never asked me to put him on default or tag people but in my opinion him not being on default is detrimental to the community but of course scammers and shitposters he's tagged are going to be annoyed
#1 shitposters are not scammers and this is no reason to leave someone a negative rating. A negative rating is for scammers, and for scammers only.
#2 Lauda has vastly expanded the criteria for him to leave negative ratings for people that has absolutely nothing to do with scamming. One example of this is the vast number of negative ratings left by lauda for "cheating" campaigns by having multiple accounts -- the campaigns were in no way cheated as they received a service, and (potentially -- often this does not happen) paid for said service. Having multiple accounts in no way affects the benefit of said service.
#3 I also have notice that Lauda is very quick to leave a negative rating against someone simply because a scam accusation has been opened, even when no proof beyond a persons word has been presented, and the person has responded and is disputing the accusation. This vastly puts the accused at a disadvantage, may cause the accused to not further defend himself, and if the accused was actually the one scammed, may result in the scammer getting away with their credibility intact.
#4 Lauda is an extortionist, who has refused to publicly address the extortion claim publicly. He even leaves negative trust against people who bring up the extortion topic as a means to silence those that criticize him.