cherry picked examples and personal attacks.
Trust abuse is cherry picked example now? Tagging someone for "trolling" is cherry picked example NOW
not sure what you're referring to specifically. i was largely talking about the examples and personal attacks that have been aimed at
me, which i've directly responded to.
in general, i think we should be talking about patterns/repeated abuse of the trust system. we should also give everyone a chance to rehabilitate wrongfully given negative trust. we should be seeking out peaceful resolution instead of finger pointing. you may have noticed that i have made painstaking efforts not to accuse any person of wrongdoing, despite having to defend myself from multiple unprovoked personal attacks. perhaps worth reiterating:
nobody needs to fully accept the standards in the OP, nor include/exclude any of the people listed.
it's impossible to fully remove human subjectivity, prevent all conflict, or account for every possible situation with these kind of standards. that doesn't mean we can't honestly work towards a more fair system that is not characterized by rampant "frivolous, retaliatory, and opinion-based red tags".
everybody should probably have a threshold where another user's feedback/trust list is not valuable, or is detrimental to the trust system. at that point, they should probably remove or exclude that user.
should one instance of questionable feedback over many years be enough to reach that threshold? it's up to individuals to make that determination. like i mentioned earlier, there is unfortunately some nuance required here and i'm having trouble deciding exactly how to deal with it:
part of the issue i'm struggling with regarding my trust list inclusions is the existing status quo---DT trust abuse is rampant, but the wrongfully accused or those who stand against DT trust abuse are generally silenced (within the trust system) by DT1 exclusions. in other words, abusive DT tags stand but the other side is effectively silenced.
in the face of trust abuse, i would obviously prefer the community work together to ostracize the abusers, but this is a long term process at best, and no doubt an uphill battle. in the interim, what seems acceptable re inclusions? let's take the example of a user whose feedback and trust inclusions we generally agree with, but who may have responded in-kind to perceived trust abuse with a negative tag. should we attempt to silence such people? that seems to put current victims of trust abuse at a great disadvantage.