Quote from: The Pharmacist on April 04, 2018, 10:11:40 PM

Quote from: figmentofmyass on April 04, 2018, 09:59:35 PM

this isn't a court of law and rarely will anyone have all the facts.

Nor does anyone here have any real authority, except the ability to leave a feedback. Some are weighed more than others

that's actually one of the definitions of authority. a tagged account---for many folks---will carry the same weight as a ban because you're probably better off creating a new account. the fact that theymos centrally dictates who has these powers (and who doesn't) makes the social relationships pretty clear. unequal power distribution is the basis of authority. positive and negative trust have a massive impact on anyone's ability to do business on the forum, so let's not act like the ability to leave feedback is meaningless. if it didn't matter, nobody would care. clearly, people care.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on April 04, 2018, 10:11:40 PM

DT members aren't the police. There certainly may be collusion amongst them (or among any number of members of bitcointalk), and if you don't like it...there's not much you can do about it except do what you're doing, which is writing long, screaming treatises about how unfair the forum is. This isn't a democracy, this isn't the job market, the department of labor, the Chinese government, or anything else. It's a discussion forum with a trust system that's obviously (to me) broken, and a bunch of human beings of varying intelligence and honesty.

if you haven't noticed, i very much enjoy arguing. when i came in here, i was just laying out a generic negative opinion about how the system is used. i wasn't really all that interested until the personal attacks and contradictions and fallacies came forth in response.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on April 04, 2018, 10:11:40 PM

You can keep complaining about all of this, but eventually people will stop coming over to play once they realize the debate is failing to resolve anything. That's exactly what's going to happen.

already happened many times before. what exactly do you think i'm trying to accomplish here? lol. i'm much more interested in getting one or two people to escape the groupthink than to accomplish any actual change. nothing's going to change.

the debate won't ever get resolved. in fact, a debate can't resolve anything. theymos just needs to decide to make changes, or not. around the time i joined the forum, the trust system was his brand new invention. this is his show, we're just in the audience. i guess DT are like the ushers or some shit.

dang, there goes suchmoon twisting words again. i might respond later after a few drinks. or not. Wink