@csmiami: thanks for your expanded explanation
@JollyGood: thanks for removing the red trust on Gyrsur
None of this has anything to do with the negative feedback you received. Bitcointalk has never supported plagiarism.
Is that really plagiarism tho? No, its not. If it was, why shouldn't accounts that do this be banned from the forum?
"the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own."
You are wearing a ChipMixer signature -- does that mean you are attempting to pass the "work" off as your own? You are wearing it with permission from ChipMixer, I understand, but how does that make it
not plagiarism? At least Gyrsur attempted to put his signature through a text spinner, lol.
Regardless, you know full well that plagiarism isn't a reasonable excuse to leave red trust. There's a much better case to be made for "theft."
If we look at precedent, other users have been (justifiably) given negative trust for stealing signature designs. Examples include
Alttradex,
biy,
Crypto_Qv9 and
Untold. I don't think I'm in the wrong in considering someone who steals signature designs to be untrustworthy. I agree that trolling is not a valid reason to leave a negative trust feedback so I've reworded the trust rating.
Lets go through these 1 by 1.
Alttradex - this guy stole a signature to promote his ICO; his intention was to profit directly from use of the signature. AFAIK, Gyrsur is not an employee of zkSNACKs Ltd., the company that performs the CoinJoins using Wasabi Wallet. He had no intention of profiting off somebody else's work.
biy - same thing, copied w/o permission in order to promote their own project
Crypto_Qv9 - same thing
Untold - this guy doesn't have any negative feedback. He has a neutral from yahoo that reads
Basically, I can see how what Gyrsur did was annoying, but he had no intentions of acquiring a profit from his actions, and once reprimanded, he removed his signature (even if only after putting up a fight). I don't see how this equates to trade risk.
As far as Gyrsur's actions in the last 12 hours are concerned, its apparent that he isn't DT material, which I don't think he minds so much as he doesn't have a custom trust list, and that situation has
corrected itself. It's ultimately up to Gyrsur to be amenable enough to encourage DarkStar_ to "let bygones be bygones," but unfortunately things didn't transpire that way... Oh well, I tried.
Thanks JollyGood and DarkStar for chiming in.