I don’t have time for others right now.  This is important, because it’s a reasonable question reasonably stated:


I don’t care, as I said in my reply to you in another thread, and in my post that OgNasty deleted.

Why would I care about DT?

• Almost immediately after I returned to the forum in January 2020, I predicted that democratic DT would be an horrific mess.  My contempt for DT is not sour grapes:  It is my response after my foresight proved correct.  And I have been consistently critical of democratic DT ever since then.
• I don’t do business on the forum.  I have no reason to play DT politics.  People with wise judgment will include me, so that they can see my tags up top—regardless of any exclusions.  And with Lauda gone, although I have some other forum friends whom I respect and value, I am not so closely, publicly associated with anyone here that I need to worry about blowback to my friends from the petty spite of some of the characters hereby involved.  My DT status (or lack thereof) does not affect me in any way.
• You know how so many precious snowflakes like to say, “I don’t care what others think of me”?  Guess what:  I really don’t.  I am constitutionally immune to caring about an opinion just because it is somebody’s opinion—or just because it is many people’s opinion.  Most usually, I care only if an opinion is right or wrong.  If you’re wrong, you’re wrong—the only question is if I will waste my time futilely attempting to educate the ineducable.
  
  It is this attitude that made me popular, when I only directed it against unpopular people.  Review some of my earliest Newbie posts applying a blowtorch to Bcash shills.  Same attitude.  Or look at how suchmoon was delighted when I tore into QS in early 2018 (I privately apologized to Quickseller for some of that in early 2020—peace, QS!).  If you don’t want to taste the same medicine, don’t behave like a total idiot.
• It’s an Internet forum.  Not a kingdom.  My life does not revolve around it; I could leave tomorrow, not look back, and be better off for it.  Some perspective is in order.

So, I will just call ’em as I see ’em.

In the course of my life, I usually have done just that.

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Edit in preview (writing long-ish post while multitasking):

The Pharmacist:  OK, that was more reasonable than some of the other responses.  You understand, we disagree about tags for trolling.


In this case, it is quite clear-cut if the word has any meaning at all.

In a CH troll thread, Mr Nasty participated in gloating with extremely malicious ill-wishes for Lauda (plus TMAN and Vod).  And that was only the straw that broke the camel’s back:  I have seen him do trollish shitposting from petty personal spite many times before.  He is a troll.

I am not inclined to catalogue and quote all of his trolling, because (0) that would amplify it, and (1) it’s not worth my time.

If you trust my judgment, then include me so that you will be well-informed by my tag.  If you don’t, don’t.  If you fundamentally disagree with me about the use of the trust system (and you’re not just rationalizing a defence of Mr Nasty’s indefensible behaviour), then ~nullius works just fine.

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Be that the case, then it would mean that I disagree with theymos.  Who marks the trust system as “unmoderated”, and provides you with a handy ~ key if you disagree with my use of the trust system.

IMO, the trust system went from the frying pan to the fire while I was gone.  I have been complaining about that quite consistently, ever since I returned; see the above link for what was only my first criticism of it.