Quote from: Deena on February 06, 2019, 08:42:06 AM

Quote from: Bazinga442 on February 06, 2019, 08:03:33 AM

About meriting, surely, it wouldn't be considered manipulation if awarded to good posts, regardless of whether the poster is an "undesirable"? In this case a thread like this would suffice: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.0 - where posters can report good unmerited post and anybody can merit them if they choose to.

The moderators already started to (anonymously) de-merit us.

Nah, that was theymos throwing them dogs a bone.

Quote from: theymos on February 05, 2019, 10:46:22 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on February 05, 2019, 07:11:31 PM

Is stingers still a merit source?

Not anymore. That's clear abuse, awarding merit for political reasons rather than any idea of quality. Only because he was a source, I effectively undid those merit sends. If he had not been a merit source, I still would've blacklisted anyone who got into DT1 through that type of shenanigans.

I hadn't read into the thread deeply enough to see that stuff. Those are better arguments against the trustworthiness of H8bussesNbicycles & co., but note that the current negative-trust-ratings were sent long before that. Before February, the thread looks like politics to me.