The rules have nothing to do with trust,
So simple yet so clear. My confusion is now gone. One can give trust or distrust as one likes. But then why are only a few given te power to give trustpoint and not everyone?
Anyone can leave trust on anyone else. People are responsible for their own actions. Do you want liberty and freedom or do you want a nanny state and fascism?
It is even so that some people who are very much distrusted by others are still given te power to give trust points. Isn't that a bit unfair? In the wild West at least every cowboy could carry a gun to defend himself.
Are you unarmed or not able to defend yourself? Some people can be trusted to carry a gun whilst others can't. Some people are better shooters than others. Some will use that gun for good and some will use it for bad. Which one are you? I think when people try to buy themselves into positions of trust or power you're more likely to belong to the latter. Why don't you actually try to actually earn the community's trust and respect instead of trying to be someone you are not. Your reasoning seems very cowardly to me.
I'm not poor for wanting to have a respected account. I'm poor for not having a respected account. For that exposes me to abuse by the powerful ones with green points but no morals. Would this be a proper and fairly moderated forum I could probably agree with your thought of working your way up. But I have the impression that in a wild West forum with a couple of corrupt sherriffs who alone are given guns honesty and a hard working mentality is not enough.
Poor
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(of a person) deserving of pity or sympathy.
"they enquired after poor Dorothy's broken hip"
No, poor you that you somehow feel like you have to buy an account here to participate in a signature campaign. Poor you that at the most you have to wait a couple of weeks or months. I'm not sure why you think buying a legendary account somehow gains you respect or will shield you from abuse either because it doesn't. A bought legendary account is worthy of nothing but a title and if people find out that you have bought it it will be marked as such because you haven't earned the respect or rank, but the mere fact that you are wanting to buy an account makes you part of this very Wild West that you apparently have such a dislike of. If anyone relishes the fact that this place is a wild west it's the person who is happy to try buy himself into some sort of position of respect and recognition without earning it and makes you the corrupt one if anything.