TECHSHARE seems to be saying that he does not need to explain his reasons to you. If we only talk about the trust with the Turkish users, he says that he may have added them for his own reasons. At one point, i think he has said that he wants the forum to have more diversity in DT1. That diversity also seems to be primarily targeted on having sufficient opposition to the "clown car" or whatever. LOL.
I wouldn't have stepped in if he hadn't said this:
I mediated a dispute between Timelord and some members of the Turkish community, they added me, as a result I ended up back on the default trust list.
I get it nutildah. I just wanted to re-state what TECHSHARE has been saying and try to look at it from his viewpoint. He has taken a personal interest in trying to make DT1 more diverse. I am only trying to make him see that his intention maybe good but the guiding factor should not be "I want to take a look on whoever the DT1-Clique targets". He has said here: (emphasis mine)
You want to REALLY know why I added those Turkish users? Because they were just barely off the DT and I wanted to see it more diverse. Additionally because anyone the resident clowns exclude I immediately find interest in. The Turkish community was obviously being targeted. I don't believe it was for racist reasons though, I just think the clowns feel like they can't keep their iron grip of nepotism if more groups are included. All this circus is, is punishment for working to bust up their little clown cartel, and it is painfully transparent.
Through what i have seen of those particular Turkish users, especially Vispilio, they are eloquent but insidious. Just look at the posts spreading conspiracies about DT-1 controlling Theymos, Blockstream controlling DT-1 and all of them somehow conspiring to keep his alt-coins out of the forum. Isn't this forum supposed to be about Bitcoin?? The legendary and older turkish members are supposed to act as "guides" to the newer local members. Instead, this is the shit they are peddling in the name of "justice", "national pride" etc etc. Don't we have enough of the Roger Ver businessmen types who choose to make the most of the "business opportunity" even if it meant putting decentralization at stake?? (See quoted post from mindrust above)
These people keep saying that Theymos should do something. If there is one thing I know about Theymos from his past actions,
he is not someone who would look kindly at people who attempt to change or disparage Bitcoin because they somehow aren't able to EARN enough from it. That behavior is typical of people like Ver, Jihan, Faketoshi. These are the points I have tried explaining to him. I hope he tries seeing it from this viewpoint. Him adding people to DT-1 and thus empowering them should be a more responsible action.
If he really wants diversity, there are plenty of users in the Indonesian, Fillipino and even Indian section who don't want to compromise on Bitcoin just so they can earn more for themselves. There are people contributing to technical sections and having a good enough knowledge on the history of bitcoin such that they don't fall for the conspiracy theories peddled by trolls on r/btc. What are we even doing at this forum if we can't stick to certain tenets?? I personally like to believe that this isn't just "business".