Quote from: Welsh on Today at 12:18:05 PM

Quote from: ArcusIsidar on Today at 10:24:02 AM

Why scams, abuses and everything bad around is not moderated, but the regular members have rights to decide what's wrong and right instead of the forum Staff/Moderators?

Personally, I think allowing the community to sort out community issues is probably the best approach, especially when it comes to subjective cases. Scams aren't always obvious, and it's best to catch a scam before it happens, right? Well, a moderator banning a user just because they seem like a scammer would open a whole can of worms, while if the community does it by applying a flag or trust rating, than trust rating can be openly disputed, and the user can still actively voice their concerns, and potentially continue trading despite the allegations, because there has been times where the allegations have been false. If we were to ban those users, the only way to currently appeal a ban his to email admins or appeal in Meta to other staff users. This would likely lead to accusations of corruption, although there's plenty of those accusations thrown around over the years. At least, with the community other community users can disagree in a open way, and sort out who the most suitable users are to judge others, and therefore be included in DefaultTrust, DT2, DT3, and so on.

Quote from: ArcusIsidar on Today at 10:24:02 AM

The forum is full with non-sense, off-topic and spam and no one seems to care about it.

We all care about removing spam, there's moderators actively moderating around the clock to remove it. However, when your moderating a website the size of this forum it can be difficult. Especially, if you have a lot of users posting spam, but not enough suitable candidates for moderators.

Quote from: ArcusIsidar on Today at 10:24:02 AM

If you guys do not know how to moderate a forum, take a look at Sythe, Powerbot, MMORPG and forums that let their Moderators to take actions.

It's not comparable. Do those forums have a eco system similar to Bitcointalk? Signature campaigns are both an advantage, and a disadvantage for the forum. We have our own eco system, but the drawback from that is it does create spam in itself. Bounties don't exist on the forums that you've mentioned, and therefore can't be compared.

Quote from: ArcusIsidar on Today at 10:24:02 AM

Is that how things work like here? Is this some kind of gang-team forum membership where rules and moderation means nothing?

The trust system is far from perfect. However, you could potentially just carry on your day ignoring it. If you use escrow, and guard against the possibility to scam, then it likely won't effect your on forum trading all that much. I don't think anyone will disagree with you here, there's been multiple instances either several forum users gang up, or they are split down the middle, and go to war with each other. That unfortunately is what people do, we can guard against that, but really we can't stop it. This is evident in almost all industries I've been involved in, and worked in.

Welsh, thanks for joining the conversation.
Well, Moderator banning user without proofs is not a good idea, but banning him after valid proof report will be great.
The way forum is being moderated give a chance to a lot of scammers, trust abusers, and gangs with "powers" to control the website.
How is that better giving the "powers" to people which are not aware how to control the things than Moderators and Administrators handle the serious issues.
Last few months i have read of things about the users here and the trust abuse.
About ognasty, lauda, and all unfair things going on.
Seems like no one care about the truth and justice here.
Giving that kind of powers to non-staff members is awful and alreadyu ruined the forum reputation.
Outside this forum, bitcointalk is known haven for scammers, worst moderation, people who use their ranks to scam/promote scam projects and stuff like that.
I've been called with different names for no reason, no proof based and trust abused without single proof.
Those things should be handled by Moderators not by people who watch to much movies...