Alright, that makes sense.

Very interestingly, I have found a message (from a private source) where HERPES said that he can easily buy alts to popularize his projects and give me bad rep. Moreover, my thread on CrashingCrypto, which had support from several DT users including suchmoon and RHavar, has mysteriously disappeared. This combined with the fact that a known (and extremely rich) scammer kilo17 has green trust makes me think there's something fishy going on behind the scenes, possibly involving money changing hands. Who knows.