Quote from: nullius on January 04, 2020, 01:48:05 AM

If theymos ever made a statement specifically about issuing negative trust feedback for merit abuse, I must have missed it.

Here

Quote from: theymos on October 21, 2018, 02:28:55 PM

If a DT member tags you for something stupid involving merit (ie. probably anything less than selling merit), then they're not going to be a DT member for much longer.

Aside from that, if people complain about whether things deserve merit at all, then that's something to perhaps think about, but if you conclude that they're wrong, then that's that.

Quote from: nullius on January 04, 2020, 01:48:05 AM

I see no evidence that the sky is falling, or that I accidentally broke the trust system.

Funny users aren't flocking in here to defend CH..
If this was a clean legendary with 500+ earned merit, friends, and a good history, I think it would be a different story..

Especially if you want to get into the "good outweighs the bad" debate, just because their isn't much opposition to you tagging CH like that doesn't mean it will work on every user in every case i.e. no "precedent"..

Quote from: nullius on January 01, 2020, 10:29:38 PM

a thin, dangerous line

Your Reductio ad Absurdum hypothetical is based on the subjectivity of how egregious each possible case is interpreted to be by every other voting member independently with the threshold rising tremendously based on the credibility of the subjected user in question..

I am unsure about this particular tag, slightly in the negative on it, but I do not believe that this example has any bearing on any other case, past, present, or future, as they are all independently interpreted by many independent interpreters and therefore will vary..

Quote from: nullius on January 04, 2020, 01:48:05 AM

I think that I should better explain what I am trying to do, in terms that are not so abstract.

It would be nice for you to further expound on this subject..

I am unsure what you are trying to do here but am thinking you may be trying to... .. .. .

Quote from: nullius on January 01, 2020, 10:29:38 PM

set precedent in what is effectually the Bitcoin Forums common law on use the trust system.

Which I would have to wholly disagree with..