I have no interest in getting any "boot-licking" merits. Thankfully, i have garnered a few without resorting to that. You could say though that I have a bias to judge people like Lauda, actmyname, Pharmacist etc. more favorably compared to others. This is after seeing the post history, references left for scammers and the moderation done by them. It'll be clear to anyone (except those who had their accounts suffer) that there actions have been for the good of the forum.

Yeah, I'm still pretty disappointed in aTriz for what he did, though a neutral is all I'm giving him for now.  I've been in a couple of his campaigns and he's run them very well as far as I can see. These new accusations against him kind of threw me for a loop--but I've seen otherwise honest individuals suddenly start to get infected with the greed bug.  I shouldn't be surprised, but I still am.  Hopefully he can redeem himself.

I disagree with no malice. Mainly because of the events leading up to this and the fact that aTriz calls out others for similar shady behaviors.

Let me first say this situation is/was a tough one for me, probably the toughest I've faced on this forum. I had enough confidence in ALU to join the signature campaign several months ago (which I ended shortly after the alia debacle - personally, I just was not comfortable with aTriz's involvement there). This was the first paid signature I've ever wore (not including the NastyFans you get nothing signature, which interestingly enough, I later found out only got me put on public ignore lists, till this very day! ). I realize others may not see their signature as them 'supporting' something but I'm not someone that would wear a signature of a project I don't support.

When I contacted aTriz about the signature campaign he was posting about, I specifically told aTriz that I did not want to be part of anything shady and only wanted to be involved in advertising for a project that was legitimate. He assured me it was legitimate and pointed out what it was - ALU. I researched ALU a bit and, believe it or not, had some comfort seeing Lauda as part of it, and honestly liked the idea of it, thinking it might be a way to make ICOs less of a cesspool and a little more honest. I believed this because aTriz & Lauda were part of it (whom had both expressed disgust towards other ICOs doing bumping and other shady activities and have called out quite a few people and ICOs), so I don't think my belief was that far fetched, as I would have expected either one of these two people to have called "SCAM" as soon as someone was saying they raised 3 million dollars and they had really only raised ~10,000.