A few days ago I found, by pure chance, that the sticky topic from Scam Accusation board containing a
scam accusation format was created by a user which has now a
-4 Trust score: escrow.ms. Furthermore, the user has also an active flag created against him, after he was arrested for credit card fraud Oo
I thought it's a bit ironic to have a sticky topic teaching how to properly present a scam accusation and the topic to be made by someone involved in a severe scam.
Then I kept looking through the forum and I found other sticky topics which are created by authors with negative Trust:
- Bitcoin discussion/Legal: List of court cases, complaints, regulatory actions, etc. is created by Stephen Gornick, which has a negative feedback from The Sceptical Chymist for account selling, encouraging of scams, spam, and account farming.
- Bitcoin discussion\Legal: this board has another sticky topic created by Stephen Gornick
- Bitcoin discussion\Legal: this board has one more sticky topic created by an author with negative Trust: Guidelines for Press board, created by jgarzik, which has a negative feedback from gmaxwell
- Marketplace\Lending: [EDU] How to spot a scammer (Read this before lending your coins!) is created by Tomatocage , whose account has been compromised
Most likely, the list can go on, as i did not look thoroughly inside each board and child board.
I believe that these sticky topics created by authors with negative Trust should not be sticky anymore, as they do not offer credibility to the boards they belong, to the ones which read them and to the forum as a whole. It's a situation similar to the one related to DT2 users with negative Trust. However, if that situation is difficult to be solved, this one has real chances to be solved, if there is willing about doing so.
Eventually, these topics could be rewritten by someone which does not have negative Trust / bad reputation. Or simply have the author changed, if their authors are not active anymore.
Opinions?