I saw you retaliate against someone for criticizing you very recently.

On 2018-02-04, user VirosaGITS (previously 40: -0 / +4) opened a thread titled "The forum would probably be a slightly better place without Lauda's nonsense."

On 2018-02-06, Lauda left negative feedback for VirosaGITS [??: -1 / +4]. Lauda claims that VirosaGITS was pulling a "self-escrow" scam. But if you look at the context and chat logs, he said that he was willing to use an IRL escrow (as opposed to paying high forum escrow fees) if payment up front on the basis of his positive trust and trading history was unacceptable. Neither of these things is untrustworthy. Neither of them are a "self-escrow" scam. If you read the chat logs, there is literally nothing indicative of a scam or intent to scam. There was literally no agreement made and no shadiness to speak of on VirosaGITS's part. The rest of Lauda's feedback is meaningless unverifiable blathering about "false claims" and "slander."

As it turns out, the user VirosaGITS supposedly "scammed" was trying to pull an escrow scam himself.

Yet, Lauda's negative trust rating of VirosaGITS still remains. It seems like a very clear cut case of trust abuse triggered by VirosaGITS's thread about Lauda.

Unsurprisingly, no one else tagged VirosaGITS because the notion of doing so was ridiculous. Yet no one on Default Trust was willing to speak against Lauda for this retaliation, either. No one wants to bring that kind of wrath on themselves for obvious reasons.

I commend OG for having the balls to stand up to Lauda.