I noticed Ratimov has been deleting content from his own topics, after which he must have reported it and Mods deleted the topics (in that post I linked 58 topics). Speculation is this is to hide traces of his past plagiarism, but I can't know his reasons for sure. The timing is at least peculiar after his DT1-status was questioned again.

He now also deleted 6 of my posts from his self-moderated topics, and deleted all other posts from others users too.
I find it utterly disrespectful to do this on a forum. It also means I never want to post in any of his self-moderated topics again, so Ratimov is now on my Ignore list.

Ratimov - 2 Years on Bitcointalk + Giveaway !!!: 69 posts, 46 Merits earned.
6k Merit Club. When is Legendary ?: 74 posts, 12 Merits earned.

I was curious how many Merits he earned in the past for the other topics he's now deleting, so I checked: in those 58 topics, he earned 202 Merits. Apparently users valued those posts a lot more than he values them by himself.

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