Quote from: legendster on January 24, 2018, 10:55:44 PM

Quote from: Blazed on January 24, 2018, 03:41:55 PM

My goal when adding people to the Default Trust network was to help clean up the garbage posting on this forum. I understand people are all worked up over sea of red that ensued after my adding The Pharmacist and actmyname to DT2. I would love to hear some suggestions on how to make this fair for everyone. The useless posting makes this place pretty much useless for most people and it needs to get fixed. Most of the red users I have seen are guilty of shit posting for pay. I have also seen some suggestions that sounded good like drop a red for a week and if they clean it up remove the red and leave a neutral. I think everyone should be able to join a campaign and earn some coins, but the spam is out of control and no one can seem to fix it so far...

Maybe I was wrong to add people to fight spam? So far I see no reason that negative trust can not be used to stop these spammers. If I leave a neutral then they are free to continue spamming etc... I look forward to some ideas on what to do here.

I was just reading this other post here and he too seemed to have expressed his concerns of hiring this gang of good ol boys to fight spam.
IMO, pharmacists CAN recognize a shit post but he is incredibly biased, comes off as a rude, bigotted and a racist person. If it were me I would not be giving so much power to someone who can't have some form of self-control in these issues.
But, then again, like I said. He's not stupid, his red tags do usually hit the right spot with spammers.

There needs to be an automated way, something, that I have suggested in that post theymos made. Something that automatically deals with the issue. For instance this Merit system that has just been implemented, this can be used to hire people that have higher merit vs those that have lower merit. This is like the thumbs up / like button. The more likes you get, the better.

Well, there is no reason he can't be a little more polite with negative coments I suppose. These days everyone is so sensitive...I mean it is the internet and you should expect the occasional name calling. So far there have been a couple solid suggestions to help fix the spam stuff so my additions seem to be helping! I am sure we as a community will find a fair way to fix this spam issue. I need to read up on this merit system... I hope it helps also.