Re: Discussion about acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Community values. DT
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Possible solution is just don't care about anything let the system work in its way.
Possible solution is just don't care about anything let the system work in its way.
Then you won't mind if we throw you on the pile first right?
That is certainly valid advice, but again it is reduced to the same problem, it is completely subjective, and if it serves the interest of "forum cops" by increasing their profile and influence then there is an explicit conflict of interest inherent.
Sometimes its not subjective. Sometimes scams are committed and all the evidence required to prove it is present on this very forum. I don't know how red tagging "increases" somebody's "profile", in a positive manner anyway.
Ok great. If you are producing evidence of a crime or a violation of a contractual agreement between users, negative rate away, that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about this fast gunning, frivolous, assembly line, OCD use of ratings as they are now, left for every petty disagreement and things people don't like here.
Ultimately all it does is serve to make it EASIER for the real cons because they can hide in the chaos and noise while you go after the "pajeet" scammers. Then after all is said and done we are still left with a huge amount of conflict, disagreement, and fraud as well as a lot of innocent users swept up in it. It is counterproductive.
You don't see how it increases somebody's profile? Tell me, there are some members here that have done little to no trading here yet have stacks of great ratings. What are the majority of them related to? Right "scam busting". Real or not quite so real, it doesn't make much of a difference to some of them... it all makes them look more valuable, and there is no penalty to being wrong for them.
Also people like me pointing this out potentially takes away their easy faucet of influence, which is why you see some of these people come after myself and other long trusted members of this forum who dare to point out this dynamic. It is not like there are a lot of people here with this much reputation that they are willing to put on the line to be potentially taken by these people, and anyone without reputation saying it is easily dismissed as a con artist.