Many whys.
Since when and why regular members have rights to decide who is scammer, and who is legit without valid reports?
What's a valid report in your opinion? A guy may come to me and say that their service will bring my money back if I give them sensitive information such as my wallet.dat or a seed phrase. Should I deliver those to confirm that they're indeed scammers or should I make my justified preconceptions? This person may be harmful for a newbie; I choose to make this clear.
So, my counter-argument is: Why don't negatively flagged users provide their evidence that they aren't malicious to change our minds? If it's clear, we won't keep our bad feedback in their trust pages.
Why do regular members with feedback ( which should be based on trading experience ) have powers to make non-valid statements and abuse the trust system ?
It shouldn't be based exclusively on trading experience. We aren't machines; we have instincts if something hits the fan.
Why do the trust system have nothing to do with "trust" and why it is even called "trust system" consider there is nothing trust based on it?
With which person would you prefer to exchange or do anything that would require trustworthiness? A guy who has been here for over a decade and lots of users state that he should be trusted or a newly created account?
I was going to continue answering your questions, but each one is worse than the other. I don't think that I deserve this punishment.
Valid report in my and everyone with brain would be like everywhere else.
Example: User "A" doing something wrong Off-in site like (malwares,scamming,phishing or anything against the forum rules).
Posting proof that's the same person doing it.
Posting proof of the malware/scam/phishing or the act against the forum rules.
Oh wait... You got me... There is no official forum rules here right?
How anyone expect to beat the scammers without official rules in first place ?
How anyone expect people to be trusted and respected without scam moderation, active Moderators with powers, and regular users with proof based feedback without powers to ruin anyone name for no reason.
Take a look on the other forums, anyone you pick. Some of them exists almost 20 years and running well with Rules. Because that's the difference between humans and animals right?
If you like to call someone a scammer, you should prove it in first place, and the Moderators itself should take care of them with ban, warning or whatever they feel responsible.
Who are you, me or anyone with or without feedback to decide who is harmful for someone ?
You are no one same as me and everyone except the Staff members, we are just visitors of someone else property.
Which host let his visitors to have powers to shit in their house ? What kind of weird shit is that?
If you were trustworthy enough to judge who is harmful and who is not, you would be a Moderator... But your decision same as mine means nothing.
For you, me and your cousin many things may be wrong and harmful but for entire country can be totally right. That's why there should be forum rules in first place... To be sure what's wrong and what is right in the forum.
This is complete disaster.
If someone was helpful to the community that's awesome, but what gives him right to play: Moderator, Supporter, Judge, Final word and anything else than helpful.
If i were choosing back in the days my customers, i would never run successful million dollar worth business.
And if you ask me personally i prefer to deal with newbies instead of long term members.
You know why? Because the stream of newbies is way longer than the long term members.
Of course every business is looking for more and more new customers (newbies). That doesn't make the long time users less important.
Most of the newbies just pass around to get what they need or get rid of. They do not care about your forum ranks, but they should care about their security. In first place if something goes wrong, that it will be moderated. Also if you have feedback it should be proof based and real, not just because someone think you may harm someone.
And what protect you of "proven legit member thru the years" just to scam quit for any reason?
We're all adults, we know the risks trading online, but with what this kind of moderation help anyone? With your opinion? Or mine?
Fuck our opinion, rules should exists for everyone.