Vod is the better man. He's not perfect (no one is), but he's a lot better than you.
He also never moped about the trust system not having "objective standards" for months (years) and then gave you a negative trust for being "mentally ill" (though by all accounts it would be just as perfectly warranted). So do you have the authorized paperwork that declares Vod mentally ill or what "objective standard" are you basing that off of?
Better than me how? If you metric is abuse of the trust system or harassment, he is by far not the better man. This pretend ignore act is just an excuse to not own up to him being proven wrong with his own words, this was his immediate reaction to it being posted. Regarding the negative rating I left for Vod, I explained it already here (as you are well aware):
I see, so suddenly you want protection under my metric! Thanks for demonstrating its usefulness. Unfortunately we are not operating under my objective metric of a standard of evidence of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws, we are operating under a subjective free for all, one you take full advantage of on a regular basis. Under the current standard we are operating under, even
Theymos himself said leaving you a negative rating was completely valid, and after seeing you feign remorse and then move right back into unrepentant abuse just as you always do I decided to leave that rating for you because you more than earned it. As far as your mental illness, that is evident from your own continued unyielding escalation of unrepentant abusive behavior, but that is not why I left you the rating, I left it because you doxed and reported a user to the IRS as a form of retribution for their criticism of you. It is more than evident you have trouble controlling yourself.
OK. So you are abandoning your principles in favor of relying on theymos' words. That's fine, and as he's the admin and been here longer than almost everybody, I too value his opinions. However, you should probably take into account that he also said this:
But I tend to think that since he edited his post and seems to genuinely regret at least the public doxxing part, it'd be best to forgive.
You don't have to be big on "forgiveness" if you don't want -- that's entirely up to you. But it would be ridiculous for you to continue espousing the idea that the system should behave under your principles of "objective standards" if you yourself are unwilling to use them.