Even though I have been an active poster on the forum for about 4 years, my main hang out has been the WO thread, and essentially wearing folks out in that thread with my participation.  

 I did not delve into Meta very much until recently when trying to figure out about the new merits system, and largely, this is my first time giving very much thought to BTCtalk's Trust system and attempting to follow some of this latest drama around Lauda....

How you getting anything done Lauda?  I am sure part of the distraction of Lauda being able to focus on substantive Bitcoin or abusive thread matters comes from the receipt of ongoing personal attacks....  

In the past couple of years, I have found Lauda to be quite helpful in a lot of ways in clarifying bitcoin technical matters for me, and helping me to get access to my account back, on two occasions, and, especially helpful in the past year with dealing with some of the BIG blocker trash discussions that were infiltrating bitcoin threads, and surely there has been a lot of battles in the past couple of years on the forum in bitcoin threads regarding BIG blockers and Bcash shills, so those kinds of distractions seem fair topics to address through RED trust.  Nonetheless, I question how much utility comes from any DT1 or DT2 giving RED trust regarding practices in the newly deployed merit system - at least in the early stages of the deployment, unless the merit abuse was really obvious and egregious.

So there had been some RED trust taggers who were possibly tagging for reasons that were a bit too broad, by Lauda and others, yet I understand that battles around Lauda are a bit more complex than merely suggesting that she should NOT tag on certain subjects, because the rationale for RED tagging likely overlaps with the use of alt accounts, and perhaps overlapping and ongoing exaggerated personal attacks directed towards Lauda.