Thank you all for sharing you opinions!
Indeed, as OgNasty said, self reputation topics were no longer necessary after the introduction of the Trust system. I thought about that too, but wasn't sure though. Most likely, this is the reason for the disappearence of those topics. However, I think they could still exist... Many members do many good deals here without receiving a (positive) feedback from the other side, as the oposite is also true: many scammers are left without negative feedback...
What's certain is this: that board changed a lot during time and it is a great experience reading its first and last posts!
But I still believe it misses now something important: topics of people talking nice about others. It is full of accusations lately, facts which can be depicted in negative feedback. Again, the oposite is true: if good facts / deals can appear in positive feedbacks, why not also in topics? Just an example: why there is no topic expressing how much LoyceV or DdmrDdmr's statistics helped the forum? Expressing anger or bad facts is so easy... Why is it hard to express also the good facts in topics?
Regarding The Pharmacist's statement, I think this is the topic you mentioned:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=603586.0.
Indeed, there was a "scammer" tag, which was removed in 2014.
Surprisingly, some wanted to keep their tag
No.
A part of me feels like a piece of Bitcoin history has just been lost. I'm going to miss my tag
Indeed, as OgNasty said, self reputation topics were no longer necessary after the introduction of the Trust system. I thought about that too, but wasn't sure though. Most likely, this is the reason for the disappearence of those topics. However, I think they could still exist... Many members do many good deals here without receiving a (positive) feedback from the other side, as the oposite is also true: many scammers are left without negative feedback...
What's certain is this: that board changed a lot during time and it is a great experience reading its first and last posts!
But I still believe it misses now something important: topics of people talking nice about others. It is full of accusations lately, facts which can be depicted in negative feedback. Again, the oposite is true: if good facts / deals can appear in positive feedbacks, why not also in topics? Just an example: why there is no topic expressing how much LoyceV or DdmrDdmr's statistics helped the forum? Expressing anger or bad facts is so easy... Why is it hard to express also the good facts in topics?
Regarding The Pharmacist's statement, I think this is the topic you mentioned:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=603586.0.
Indeed, there was a "scammer" tag, which was removed in 2014.
Surprisingly, some wanted to keep their tag
I'm assuming there is no way for users to retain their scammer tag if they want to keep it?
No.
A part of me feels like a piece of Bitcoin history has just been lost. I'm going to miss my tag