Quote from: nullius on January 13, 2020, 04:15:09 PM

If you had actually READ THE DAMN THREAD before choosing to spam it with intentionally uninformed opinions, then you would not have added a completely useless post #129 missing the point that the merited user was caught in a tangle of multiple types of serious wrongdoing.

I did read it all, actually, the whole thing. I'm well aware of the unmasking of the devil (despite his phenomenal typing speed)! I do however appreciate that my reply did not convey that, so I understand your annoyance with me; it is warranted on the basis of my post. I should have given more of an explanation of what I meant.

All I am saying is that I don't think TMAN should be vilified for handing out merit. It's led to an investigation that has unmasked the recipient, which is obviously a good thing, but I can't see that TMAN did anything wrong here. And he has apologised profusely and repeatedly, starting as soon as questions were raised about the recipient, for example:

Quote from: TMAN on January 07, 2020, 08:04:59 PM

I am really confused now. Did I royally fuck up Or not?

Quote from: TMAN on January 08, 2020, 03:05:37 PM

Wow Calm down here Sherlock, I'm not connected to anyone here, admittedly I may of fucked up being a lazy cunt with the merits

I may be an uninformed relative noob, but people don't become merit sources for no reason. If Theymos thinks that TMAN deserves to be a merit source, and further has offered guidance that it's okay to dump a load of merit in certain circumstances, then surely that's good enough? What's the problem with TMAN in this particular instance? At worst he has been a bit lazy (as he himself has conceded), but I can't see this deserves such vitriol. Shouldn't we just move on now? Yes, okay, it turns out it was a mistake to merit that particular user, but mistakes happen. Why are we all so caught up on a merit source handing out merit? If you are a merit source you are justified by definition, you have been deemed responsible by the ultimate authority, and you can do whatever the f**k you like with the merit. Come on.

Quote from: nullius on January 13, 2020, 04:15:09 PM

We are not all just sitting around here waiting for you to have your say.

Yes, I know that. I'm done now. Apologies again for not being sufficiently clear in my first post.

Edit: And I'm meriting your post above. Not because I agree with it - I don't - it's on the basis of your other posts Tongue

And also because I have a load of sMerit and I can award it however I please. And also because, after all, this is the 'meta' section.