Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 22, 2019, 01:11:01 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on January 22, 2019, 12:57:24 AM

I am on the fence if he even agrees with the positions he takes. It is possible he (and a few others) are going to extreme lengths to criticize certain people, so that legit criticism of these people are assumed to be trolling and are ignored.

Even if there's legitimate criticism somewhere in all of his rambling, he's made his point many times over and at this point everything he's writing is just trolling. If the community thought he had valid points, he'd have garnered some support but that doesn't seem to be happening--and he just doesn't grasp that.

He goes to extremes to voice his points, and that turns people off from wanting to support him.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 22, 2019, 01:11:01 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on January 22, 2019, 12:57:24 AM

It is my opinion that the negative ratings others have given him are inappropriate for a number of reasons. First of all, he does not appear to trade with anyone, so leaving the negative ratings will not actually warn anyone against doing business with him. Secondly, the negative ratings only give him more to complain about. Lastly, I don't think him trolling is an indication that he is a scammer.

Negative trust isn't just given to scammers, and you know that. If Theymos thinks members ought to leave negs ONLY for people scamming or suspected of scamming, then he would make a rule requiring that. As far as CH is concerned, he's spreading lies and breaking rules and other DT members are fed up with it. I don't blame them for giving him a neg.

Theymos has said what a negative rating is for:

Quote from: theymos via trust page

Negative - You were scammed or you strongly believe that this person is a scammer.

I know you believe this should be updated, but it has not been updated. Perhaps I will create a new thread for this elsewhere, as I do feel strongly about this.

However if I were to concede that negative ratings can be given for reasons other than "someone is a scammer, or strongly believe someone is a scammer", then I would ask what purpose the negative rating to CH gives? From what I can tell, the negatives do not affect him in any way. I see little purpose in giving the ratings against CH beyond stroking the ego of those who gave the negatives.

Again the harm in the negative ratings is that CH can now complain (and troll) about one more issue.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on January 22, 2019, 01:11:01 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on January 22, 2019, 12:57:24 AM

My prediction is he will eventually get banned for trolling

That would be nice. He's one of the worst trolls I've seen since I've been a member here, and not because of his attacks against me. It's because of his constant derailing of threads, repetition of the same nonsense over and over, and his obvious use of alt accounts to give the illusion that someone agrees with him (Chosen Username is the first one that comes to mind, but there may be others). It's time for him to go.

It will take some time because the forum does not take excluding people from the community lightly.

One of my favorite trolls was WoodCollector (I believe this was from before your time here, unless you browsed before creating an account). Unlike CH, he actually tried trading around here, but when he was caught being a scammer, he turned into a troll. Here are some WC threads for your reading pleasure:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=930649.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=933888.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=864472.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=931472.0;all
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=935115.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932131.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=931109.0

I think the above links are in a good order. I gave him the benefit of the doubt for a decent amount of time, but eventually the facts came out that cemented him as a scammer.