I believe this dialogue is likely useful for administration to see, otherwise I wouldn't engage.
I think the way that you want administrators to step in because you have had power taken off of you says far more than I ever could about how you value the communities' choice and decision making when compared to yourself, and so I won't bother.
Not my motivation. I guess you think Cobra wants to eliminate the trust system because his rating wasn't high enough?
You were not aware of it, yet you just said you excluded me from your trust network due to it? That seems... conflicting. No?
That's not the reason I've excluded you, but it does seem to reinforce my judgement as being correct.
I guess you think Cobra wants to eliminate the trust system because his rating wasn't high enough?
Yes of course. After all, everything and everyone is as black and white as everything and everyone else.
However, you have been noticeably more upset since being removed from DT, which I think is fairly telling on why you want administrators to intervene on a system designed for the opposite.
That 'not black and white' is the problem...
I'm not upset. I've praised theymos' change of the system in an attempt to decentralize it. Unfortunately there are some users who are refusing to get on board with an honest system, and theymos mentioned blacklisting as a solution when this problem arises. I think Lauda and TMAN should be blacklisted, owlcatz too, but I'm not willing to write him off as hopeless yet.
Any new system has growing pains. While I believe todays change empowered a lot of nefarious users who have been trying to manipulate the trust system for a long time, and thus had a head start on these custom trust lists, I have faith the issues will be worked through in time. Thanks for working on this theymos and willingly reducing your control of the system in the name of decentralization.
Now you guys can comment back and forth if you want to bury this stuff in the thread.
I've said my piece for now. Gotta again correct nonsense from manipulators...