Quote from: suchmoon on January 28, 2018, 11:42:15 PM

You keep talking about abuse but you are failing to provide any proof of how this hypothetical abuse can prevent you from speaking out within the rules of the forum.

A recent example can be found here. But there are plenty of other examples brought to the fore by others. But as soon as such cases are posted the established members tightly close their eyes, put fingers in their ears ears, and start stamping their feet, yelling; 'not true, not true, you cunt, motherfucker, shitposter'!

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There you go, free speech problem solved, you can keep shitposting. Let's tackle world peace next.

I repeat that I am not against restriction of speech but against the abuse of the systems that are installed for that restriction. Is it on purpose or simple lack of intelligence that you seem to keep missing that point while I post it so explicitly?

Quote from: Vod on January 28, 2018, 11:52:00 PM

Quote from: Deena on January 28, 2018, 10:11:09 PM

I am against the installing of special merit and trust powers at the subjectivity of a privilaged few members with lack of ethical disposition, who thus abuse those powers.

And ALL newbies are spammers, right?

I don't lack ethics. You don't see me handing out large amounts of merits to people who are financially helpful to me, do you?

Although I found your signature text suspicious I have not seen any disgusting abuse of trust or merit power by you. Thus you may feel non-included when I speak about "privilaged few members with lack of ethical disposition, who thus abuse those powers" and feel included in 'the privilaged few members without lack of ethical disposition, who thus don't abuse those powers'.

But we all know to which respectless members I refer. Do you really want me to mention them one by one? They indeed treat all newbies as spammers and all non-friends as scammers, handing out negative taggs by the dozens, guilty or not.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 29, 2018, 12:34:30 AM

The reason I'm smiling along with TMAN is that I don't have to neg the shitposters anymore. I was never comfortable with using the trust system to do that, but as hilariousandco pointed out, it was one of the only weapons we had. I'm happy these days.

Nonsence. You've abused the trust system and loved it! Not to speak about the contempt and disrespect you show to other members with your faul language. You would definately be in the list of abusers I talked about above.