Quote from: tmfp on February 23, 2020, 12:29:10 PM

Quote from: TECSHARE on February 23, 2020, 04:46:43 AM

Quote from: tmfp on February 22, 2020, 08:40:39 PM

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He has clearly explained that he has attempted to locate members with minimal frivolous tagging.

I've never left a "frivolous" tag, but I appear to have ended up on his "Guild" hit list, presumably as a member of some conspiracy or other.
The fact that I decided (all on my own) to ~ him from my trust list and he immediately retaliated is obviously purely coincidence.

Like other posters here, I don't accept the pulled-out-of-someone's-ass assertion that trust tagging has a net negative effect on the forum, so yet another gang/conspiracy/whatever to include me in.
I leave feedback based on the mainly scam investigation stuff I post for one reason only: to help awareness levels among newbies.
I would like to stay on DT so that they see that, otherwise IDGAF.

No coincidence. I excluded you because you excluded me for defending myself against false accusations. Much like with Direwolfm14, it demonstrates to me you are more worried about silencing people with legitimate grievances to avoid conflict than what is right. That is why I excluded you, and that is why I put you on that list.

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I excluded you because you excluded me for defending myself against false accusations.

You have absolutely no basis for the belief that that was my motivation for excluding you from my trust list. Pure assumption.
It wasn't.
(I actually know my motivation for my actions).

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you are more worried about silencing people with legitimate grievances to avoid conflict than what is right.

A completely baseless assumption, with no supporting evidence, to justify a trust or exclusion negative action: exactly what you criticize others for doing.

Yes, I am sure it was just a total coincidence you excluded me and Vod at the same time drawing a false equivalence between him making baseless accusations against me and me defending myself against him. So am I free to choose my exclusions as I please or not? It seems you like having this right for yourself, and of course no explanation is needed. Yet here you are condemning me for exercising the rights I have within the system and demanding explanations.

Like I said before, you are all free to make your trust inclusion and exclusion choices, but when I do it, regardless of what is it, it is evidence of some kind of malpractice according to you and I am required to defend my choices.

Very convenient you are trying to blur the line between exclusions and abusive negative ratings so you can demand an explanation and evidence for yourself for not a rating but an exclusion. This is exactly the kind of intellectual dishonesty that lead me to exclude you and put you on that list.

Quote from: DireWolfM14 on February 23, 2020, 04:54:05 PM

Quote from: TECSHARE on February 23, 2020, 04:46:43 AM

I excluded you because you excluded me for defending myself against false accusations. Much like with Direwolfm14, it demonstrates to me you are more worried about silencing people with legitimate grievances to avoid conflict than what is right.

If you are going to continue to make accusations against me, please provide substantive evidence.

I have never shied away from explaining my inclusions or exclusions, and every time it's brought up I've explained yours. There was a time (about a year ago) when I had you included in my trusted list. Then something happened that caused me to really scrutinize my trust list a bit more thoroughly. Someone popped up on DT2 that really surprised me, at first I thought it was a bug, and I even started a thread about it.

But then I found the connection and made an adjustment to my trust list which I felt was necessary.

Quote from: DireWolfM14 on March 17, 2019, 04:30:08 PM

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I found the connection, I guess I didn't realize the depth of trusted users.

It wasn't personal, it had nothing do with whether I trusted you or not. It was solely due to your inclusions, which lead me to conclude your judgement for inclusions is in conflict with mine. And again, that's the only reason I excluded you when you finally made it to DT1. I didn't want your inclusions to influence the reviews I see. I've explained myself many times, and provided this evidence before, which you continue to ignore when spinning your narrative.

The real reason you excluded me was because I excluded you. In fact, you excluded me from yours mere hours after I adjusted mine. It was retaliation, pure and simple. Any other excuse you suggest is a demonstrable lie.

The way I used my trust list is exactly how it should be used, the way you suggest it should be used in your OP. The trouble is you're not following your own standards. And furthermore, you attack belittle, and flat out insult anyone who does follow your standards, but doesn't agree with your inclusions.

The trust system is subjective, it relies on people using their own judgement, and picking people who's judgement they trust. It's not right or wrong, it's their judgement. I've never asked you (or anyone else) to revise your trust list, because even if I disagree with some of your inclusions or exclusions, I don't believe it's any of my business.

So, again, please provide substantive evidence if you are going to claim you know why I excluded you and especially when it conflicts with reality. Or better yet, stop lying about it. It only forces me to expose your own narcissism and hypocrisy.

Once again, your exclusions are above reproach, and my exclusions are required to be substantiated and are evidence of malpractice. Your excuse doesn't explain why you didn't simply exclude the parties you objected to, or for that matter simply send me a personal message about your concerns. Instead, you participated in an exceptionally well coordinated and very public clown show, joining in the public smear campaign in this thread, of course not having the spine to call me out by name but instead hiding behind the pretext of a theoretical scenario that just so happens to match the exact situation you had an issue with me over. Of course you were taking a page out of marlboroza's nutless slandering tactics.

This was two days after this false and baseless accusation here that no one ever substantiated, but multiple people have used as an excuse to negative rate me over. Also lets not forget this, this, or this. I am sure I am missing at least one or two other threads. You swear up and down you weren't participating in a coordinated public attack attempting to smear my character in perfect synchronization with those who have a documented history of abusing the trust system against me, but not only the timing of your actions and the method they were carried out demonstrate to me very clearly your intent to attack my character, not just to see positive change made with in the trust system. You are disingenuous and talk out of both sides of your mouth, and I don't trust you, which is why I excluded you.