The vast majority of people on DT1 fall into

1. Scammers or willing scam facilitators for a price
2. Will support and protect scammers if they do the same for them.
3. Will support and protect scammers if they can spam highly paid sigs
4. Don't approve but too much of a bunch of pussy weasels to speak up also know it would be pointless other than to see them punished by the trust system for doing the right thing.


Of course its fucked.

I dont know anything about the person you mention.

But yes the trust system is broken because it resists transparent objective standards.

So yes a scammer can use the trust system to deter, discredit and punish honest members who report DT scamming or other directly financially motivated wrongdoing.

On top of that they can block legit flags
Trade red tag removal
Give merit and trust includes to incentivise blocking legit warnings or bolstering bogus warnings.

It's a total sham.
Literally worse than no system. Far worse.

Only an imbecile would not immediately recognize this.
Imagine nearly 2 years in with the indisputable evidence plastered everywhere.

Ask yourself why? Why would DT fight tooth and nail to resist transparent objective standards than would ensure everyone is treated equally and scammers are punished and free speech and freedom to report scammers without fear of reprisal is returned?

Even more worrying why the designer is not immediately moving to such a system.

The flagging system was a trojan.

It rolled in promising objective standards but all it did was free up the tagging system to have even greater power to abuse members with the same level of punishment as before. So really it simply widened the scope for abuse massively.  No more requirement for scamming or any financially motivated wrongdoing just tag people for anything and still crush their ability to paid2post or trade.
Bogus and moronic.

The bigger question is how much does it even matter now 90% plus of the best members left or hardly post?
That is the worst part. The forum has died whilst other crap places have grown and expanded.

This was the core hub for crypto and it has simply died.  That is a fucking sad. I wonder if it can even be fixed if we cut the over policing and reintroduced level playing field where people felt there was still opportunities here without pandering to the whims of a handful of turds. Whenever I try to use reddit or Twitter or these other crap places they are not a patch on how this forum once was.

I've tried to suggest numerous improvements to fix the place up, all have been rejected.