No offence to these specific users but just some quick examples of trust scores based almost soley on scambusting I could grab fast and easy from the current rep board..

Again, I don't intend to say anything bad against these users but this is just an example that shows that "scambusting" is a very effective avenue to build reputation, maybe the most effective.. Not even saying that this is their intention at all, but it could be someones intention..

Remember mdayonliner?

Quote from: hilariousetc on January 14, 2019, 11:49:22 PM

Quote from: eddie13 on January 14, 2019, 11:29:35 PM

New accounts being so ambitious to gain merits and trust, to get in with the forum police crowd, are extremely suspicious to me and I hope everyone keeps their eyes peeled..
Their are others I am suspicious of but these ones are in the past..

I wholly agree. The people who are desperate to gain 'trust' here are often going to use it for all the wrong reasons. I never came to this forum thinking I really want to be trusted and I'm sure most other very 'trusted' users here felt the same. Trust and rep is just something you build up naturally over time and should be irrelevant to most people but a lot of people seem to want it ASAP so it'll probably help them financially (whether they're just going to use it to gain an advantage in legitimate business or use the supposed 'trustworthiness' to scam at a certain point). This is partly why I really don't trust op. He seems to really just want a trusted account at whatever the cost. Would he have tried to use that trust to pull some sort of scam at some point ? Who knows, but like I said before, ponzi promoters aren't exactly the most moral of people.

Also scambusters would probably make the most dangerous scammers themselves due to their scam education and expertise..
I can't find my old post about QSs rep but I said something along the lines of "If he was a scammer he would be an extremely dangerous scammer"..
Who could get away with Murder better than an experienced murder detective that knows all the ways to catch murderers?

Quote from: marlboroza on September 18, 2019, 10:42:30 PM

Paying attention to details is very important part of every investigation/research, it doesn't make someone autist, but I guess some people on this forum believe they are doctors.

It's not literal man and like I said it is sort of a compliment to be called an "autist".. It means you are better at something than mostly everyone else.. So good that, the joke goes, you must be some sort of freak with autism, to be that good at it..