Quote from: The Pharmacist on October 03, 2018, 07:51:00 PM

Quote from: Vinylriff on October 03, 2018, 07:18:53 PM

I have been informed that this matter will go no further as no one is open to debate and correction. I hope that anyone else that tries too service the communities of this forum will be meet with more open minds going forward.

Say what, now?

I'm actually glad there are some DT members tagging merit abusers after the recent change. I decided a while back not to make merit abuse my fight, but I've seen other members step up with the paint gun and that gives me a slick sense of pleasure in my acid heart. It's almost comical how blatant some of the recent abuse has been, with accounts suddenly waking up and ranking up the de-ranked Jr. Members.

Vinylriff, who informed you of what? Are you denying you abused the merit system? It kind of is open for debate, even though your red trust isn't likely to be removed. I'd love to hear your side of the story.

My case is outlined above, long story short:

Anyone account I have given merit to is an account that relays information from a Project/Team to their respective BitcoinTalk thread. Either a Project gives an update and we share it on an ANN thread or else a member of the Community asks a question on the forum and we answer it. We do this to keep the communities here informed.

The problems outlined for my merit abuse are that:

- I gave merit to comments on ANN Threads
- I gave merit to some posts that are 3 - 4 lines

1 - The project decides that the ANN thread is where they want their information posted, we have no power over this
2 - Not all answers to questions posted are Whitepapers but the function of the answers remain the same, inform the communities here so that they can trust this forum as a source of information and not have to go to Telegram or Reddit.

The user Coolcryptovator has informed me today he will no longer speak to me on the issue although I have asked him, along with the other user that painted me a merit abuser, to discuss the matter on this thread.

I am not criticising the Merit Abuse system, if it works, then it works, but I feel in the face of certain circumstances the users should be open to context. For example, I cannot share updates nor respond to questions on this account any longer as I have negative trust. This means I cannot serve the communities here on the forum.

This is my side of the story and why I cannot understand why there cannot be a resolution to this. As I say above, we all want the same thing here, for the forum to thrive.

Thank you for listening.