Want to know how I can tell that your arguments are breaking down? It's easy; you start to sound a lot like cryptohunter.
You never answered my question. If I am to perform what is arguably a public service of dispute mediation, exactly what do I need to meet your fine and arbitrary standards
I acknowledge that my standards are mine and mine alone, they do not necessarily reflect the position of the forum, forum administration, forum staff, moderators, any other DT1 members. Hell, they don't reflect the thoughts of anyone but me. Got it? Good.
1. Don't be a dick.
2. Don't pad your trust list to boost your own trust score.
3. Don't expect trust list reciprocation.
4. Don't use the trust list for retaliation.
And finally; the only one that really matters:
5. Demonstrate good judgement, good character, and restraint.
1. It is my God given American right to be a dick and fuck you for suggesting otherwise.
2. Pad my trust how exactly? By using it in exactly the way it was intended to be used, and the way it is used by practically every one else here?
3. Again, you should use your special powers to know what goes on inside my mind for more useful purposes. Even if this were true (it is not) how the fuck does some one's expectations influence others?
4. I don't use the trust list for retaliation. I am using it in the way I see fit as we are all permitted to. You see, when people such as yourself exclude me for stupid shit, I see that as a lack of ability to make sound decisions and the inability to put personal feelings aside when using the system. This system was designed this way to make sure that if some one is excluded it is done for good reasons otherwise the excluding party gets excluded themselves. That is the whole point of constructing the system this way.
5. I have been doing this for years, long before you showed up. The only instances of abuse of the trust system you can name are ones where you rely on your own interpretations, fantasies, and beliefs of what my intent is. The fact is in spite of having many interpersonal conflicts with users here I have shown exceptional restraint when using the trust system even when it is abused against me. Me telling you to go fuck yourself is not a lack of restraint. Me not shitting all over your trust ratings to spite you is restraint.
You have long been defending the actions of people who make a habit of this, but because you can imagine in your own mind things going on in my mind, well that is all the evidence you need to condemn my actions now isn't it? So again, you have no answer to my question, your reply is a ad-hominim attack comparing me to cryptohunter, and you don't need to base your actions on logic or facts because they are your opinions. Good show. Don't forget your clown shoes tool boy.