Having already characterized this case upthread as the
the single worst case of merit abuse anywhere on the forum, I want to emphasize this:
Thank you, Betfair, for reporting thisand most of all (+5), for
translating the Turkish for a sufficient proof. Ive had my eye on pitiprawn for awhile. It was obvious that he was doing something questionable, at best; just the post titles alone show(ed) that he was openly soliciting merit in some fashion, even without being able to read Turkish. But it would have been difficult to get the evidence,
or even understand what his ploy was, whereas Turkish is not one of the languages in which I have sufficient facility to at least do what I call human-guided machine translation.
Surely, I am far from alone in having noticed that something was amiss. I myself noticed pitiprawn sometime before 11 February; but due to the language barrier, I was then only able to adduce that pitiprawn was running Turkish threads soliciting merit in some fashion:
Before reading this post, I was already thinking I would like a "Merit-subscription" to your posts. Basically, (almost) anything that you write is worth reading.
You're the second
Top-merited Member, only second to
deeperx (who has red trust and got all his Merit for DeepOnion posts in his self-moderated (censored) ANN-thread). I really appreciate how well the Merit system works for good posters (and I ignore deeperx in my list of good posters).
Thanks. In the time since you wrote that, I handily blew past deeperx. Also past RichDaniel, the Hero Member so
incredibly meritorious that he got
+283 in the span of an hour (
then got red-tagged for his trouble). Unfortunately, within the past 24 hours, Ive fallen behind
pitipawn, a Full Member who seems to be running Turkish threads soliciting merit in some fashion. Id better work harder!
pitiprawns outrageous, organized, wanton and willful abuse continued for weeks. When a Turkish user stepped forward with translation, the abuse was stopped cold.This is an instructive example for those who want to clean up some of the abuse which is effectually protected by language barriers. Most of all, it is an admirable precedent for users who frequent the local forums. If you see something awful, dont just ignore it!
Nothing will give Lauda a right to put that negative trust to my profile. So don't push further and stop wasting my time.
Just relax and put your tongue back in your mouth. You guys are just talking trash.
Lauda is not here for now so, go find someone else's ass to lick. I can pm you when he answers to this bs.
(Note that that last line was deleted by talatk while I was writing this post; I noticed this just before posting. I have added the red emphasis.)
BREAKING NEWS: #476302 talatk has become king of the world and emperor of the universe. He now issues peremptory edicts defining Laudas rights, and calling Lauda to answer. Also, telling me what to do.
Ill grab popcorn.
NOTICE: talatk, please be advised that based on your behaviour here, any PMs, e-mails, or other communications you send to me may be published at my sole discretion. This is a special new policy.
Edit,
P.S.
#476302 talatk was caught participating in the single worst case of merit abuse yet seen (#1076869 pitipawn). Having received negative trust feedback, he publicly declared for his own part that he sent those merits to support pitipawn on the race. Assuming the veracity of this statement *arguendo*, this amounts to professing oneself to have committed a crimeby way of defending oneself on charges of a slightly different version of the same crime. It is a distinction without a difference.
Aggravating the matter, talatk then proceeded to evince not only a self-entitled attitude, but a self-righteous conceit (!) and the presumptuousness of dictating limitations on Laudas right of action (!!). Not only is it outrageous for one caught red-handed in wrongdoing to behave in such manner: It also demonstrates the polar opposite of remorse.
As things stand, talatk was last seen hurling some vapid vulgarity at me and Lauda both (then deleting it).
Based on such publicly demonstrated *wanton and willful self-righteousness about wrongdoing*, plus other bad behaviour, I would not trust this user to scoop a cat litter box.