What’s even more surprising is that several authoritative users have stuck their tongues up their ass. Some either say that they will watch the situation, while others don’t even write anything here so as not to take sides. The funny thing is that this kind of neutral status is a sure sign of cowardice.
In part, I understand them. And I explained that in OP:
it seems that he obtained so much power that he intimidates everybody to dare to say anything contrary to his opinions. When such things happen, the respective users get distrusted by him or receive baseless negative feedbacks, in some cases also with no reference links and usually consisting only in insults, which is against the correct use of Trust system. I spoke to many users about Ratimov's behavior and, although they agreed that his behavior is not normal, nor according to a fair DT user, they felt intimidated by him to stand against him.
For example, take these 3 feedbacks left by him, full of insults, with no reference link, 2 being negative and 1 neutral:
Now you may understand why he intimidates so many people. [...]
So all these helped him obtain his actual position, the position from which he manages to intimidate almost everybody. Most people look at users with tons of merits with respect, although in Ratimov's case they have no idea that they actually respect various authors which wrote the texts from Ratimov's texts. Those addicted to his sMerits always talk nice about him, in order to receive merits. Those which disagree with him don't dare to speak, in most of times, as they know that if they do it he can add them to his distrust list, leave them negative feedbacks or they risk to lose the precious merits they may earn from him.
For example, take these 3 feedbacks left by him, full of insults, with no reference link, 2 being negative and 1 neutral:
Now you may understand why he intimidates so many people. [...]
So all these helped him obtain his actual position, the position from which he manages to intimidate almost everybody. Most people look at users with tons of merits with respect, although in Ratimov's case they have no idea that they actually respect various authors which wrote the texts from Ratimov's texts. Those addicted to his sMerits always talk nice about him, in order to receive merits. Those which disagree with him don't dare to speak, in most of times, as they know that if they do it he can add them to his distrust list, leave them negative feedbacks or they risk to lose the precious merits they may earn from him.
However, in part, I hope though that those which acted correctly, without letting themselves intimidated by him, will also influence those still hesitating because of being intimidated by Ratimov's abuses of Trust. Maybe one after one more and more will not let themselves be intimidated anymore, will open their eyes towards all his abuses of DT power and will distrust him, just like it happened in TimeLord's case. TimeLord has been eliminated from DT and now he can leave tons of negative feedback -- nobody cares anymore.
The funny thing is that this kind of neutral status is a sure sign of cowardice.
These things usually happen. The coward who writes from an alt account speaks of cowardice.airfinex, be it an alt or not, was the first user which ever dared to expose Ratimov for plagiarism. What happened immediately after?
One of his first such miserable attack was against airfinex, the user which exposed him for plagiarism. On September 8th, 2021, Ratimov created a topic, hunting airfinex and attacking him as being someone's alt or a bounty cheater. DireWolf and The pharmacist were very vocal against him and scared him enough thus he deleted all his posts inside that thread and hid the thread in Archival board, hoping that nobody can see it anymore and people will forget about it.
So stuff like that happen when you confront this imposter.
Is airfinex to be blamed for using an alt account? I guess not. LoyceV believes the same:
^Last 2 images are words of wisdom from LoyceV. First of all he also notices the way Ratimov leaves retaliatory feedbacks. Ratimov wrote on airfinex's Trust page the following: "Stupid troll &shitposter. An errand dog [...]".. Again, a feedback consisting in insults, with no reference link.. But after LoyceV's post he deleted it. Why? Because he is also intimidated by a very few users, such as The Pharmacist or LoyceV.
Then LoyceV highlights another negative feedback left by Ratimov for revenge, this one being on wool_loow's profile. In fact, he left also a neutral feedback. What happened? Ratimov deleted these feedbacks as well.
You want to know what happens when you confront him from your main / single account? Look at my Trust page.
Or look at BitcoinGirl.Club's Trust page.
@BitcoinGirl.Club: it seems that he accused you again of plagiarism, again with no evidence, LOL! Just the usual. At least he did not use a negative tag this time. His feedbacks actually become more and more hilarious as time passes.