Quote from: Cøbra on February 09, 2019, 08:17:13 PM

I think the trust system does way more harm to the community than good, it should be removed IMO. The amount of people I get direct messaging me on Twitter complaining how they stopped using this forum because of issues around trust is noticeable, or ranting about Lauda. I don't think these people are necessarily scammers either.

Better to just remove it. I'm sure the overall happiness of the community would go way up. Let people figure out for themselves if someone or a business is trustworthy, as they do on the rest of the internet. It's a noble idea but it just builds resentment among members which might actually lead to more shady and dubious behavior. Mobs going around bullying members with trust scores is shady activity. Feels like more people complain about getting their trust fucked with and characters like Lauda than they do about scams here.

Trust scores are mostly meaningless, it's closer to a popularity contest than a true measure of someone's trustworthiness. Just by using this site, all of you are implicitly trusting me, but that isn't reflected at all in my trust score, in fact I probably seem less trustworthy on first observation than some actual shady people on here. There's so much angst with the whole system, maybe there's a way to make it work better, and tweaking it could eventually lead to that, but for now it just looks like something that's dividing the community.

Be careful now. You dont want your account tagged as bought or changed hands. Opinions that go against the cults are generally viewed with suspicion, and it wouldnt be long before youre labeled a troll. I can imagine them already trawling through your post history looking for dirt.

I dont think DT is a bad thing, however, it comes with some responsibility. I am certain that when Lauda was booted off DT for a few weeks, things were quieter on here and scams were still busted. Lauda and some members of her cult are the problem here not DT. And the sooner theyre out the better.

Quote from: LoyceV on February 08, 2019, 09:26:10 PM

Update: Bazinga442 has excluded me anyway, so he just copy/pasts a list he doesn't even agree with.

Yes, I copied and pasted the list. Ive never had a trust list before now and I visit my trust page only when I want to leave retaliatory feedback. I dont need a trust list to tell me who I should trust or not.