Re: Bitcointalk trolls, dysfunction and all out flame wars. Guide to the scandals.
You're right, though, about red trust not being a deterrent anymore. Reputation used to be full of threads asking for negative trust to be removed, but nowadays it seems like bounty managers will take any Jr. Member with a pulse, feedback be damned. And I'm still not sure why reputation doesn't seem to matter to people all that much anymore, because it certainly used to. I'm thinking partially it has to do with the emphasis that was placed on it by those members I mentioned who've now left the forum. They were members who gave out a ton of negative trust and created threads exposing scammers and other undesirables, and we don't see as much of that these days.
In my opinion, this is too abstract a statement when it comes to bounty hunters, since I cannot remember a single hot public discussion involved in the appeal of the red tag. But I swami agree if we talk about the debate dedicated to the appeal of the red tags on the basis of a personal vendetta. By the way, do not curse the feedback system, since almost every manager has his own custom list of trust, so the tags you see may differ from the tags on the basis of which the manager accepts this or that person in the campaign. 
You probably did. It's possible that I missed your repy or replies, or I might have just plain old forgotten what you wrote. However, I won't forget now that you've rapped my knuckles. In any case, I liked having xtraelv around; he was a good member.
If it weren't for https://ninjastic.space/ then I probably wouldn't have been able to find this post, so you should thank TryNinja. 
There are others as well who aren't on this list because they weren't top merit earners, and I'm thinking of xtraelv right off the top of my head, though there are others.
I think not much has changed in the last few months since I was interested in xtraelv's affairs, given that he continues to visit the forum, [he was online 5 days ago] but does not post anything. There was a time when I also had a break in publishing, I continued to read and surf the forum for more than a year, but did not publish anything (while I continued to feel involved in forum life).As for xtraelv, I think he will not scold me if I say that everything is fine with him ... he leads a more active lifestyle than many of us, and in his free time he works to refute the lies that CSW has been telling for years, (at least that was the case a couple of weeks ago). 