If my position is not needed, then why are you trying to involve me? To show that your position is weak? I'm not the only one who sees that.

What evidence did you show? There is a discussion about plagiarism held several years ago and several cases of conflicts of different users with Ratimov with mutual inappropriate tags. Additionally we see that Ratimov deleted or crashed many dozens of topics, which is bad, but doesn't relate to Trust system. All other things are your assumptions.

If you would do everything for merits you get (your top fans are 1miau and fillippone, which conclusions should we make of that?), it doesn't mean that others see the things the same way. When you see someone from Russian board whose "Merit Fan" is Ratimov and assume that it means it says everything, everyone who knows that Ratimov is a merit source from Russian board with the biggest monthly sMerit amount (1000 sMerits a month, as far as I know) will see that you are manipulating facts to exclude everyone from Russian board from the discussion if they don't support your position. But if Ratimov is most active in Russian board (at least two-thirds of his posts are in Russian board according to ninjastic.space) then who is expected to know him better? He does many good things for forum and Russian board and deserves merits he gets. So you'll see that he got many merits from all or nearly all members of Russian board. Do you really want to assure each and every that nearly all members of Russian board are blind? Everyone can see from reports in different topics that if we see plagiarism in our board we don't tolerate it and report it, with all our "tribalism", because we like our board being clean and tidy.

But you decided to use that assumption with a number of merits to blame moderators of Russian board. We already know that it revealed that these accusations are false. You have some assumptions and you don't bother to prove them, but easily blame everyone who don't support your position in which you are emotionally involved (you even insult Ratimov nearly each time you mention him recently).

So let's go further. I didn't want to get to this topic. I suppose that you are not right, but Ratimov is not right in this case also. So it was between you and him until you decided to go further and to start blaming first mods of Russian board, then me, then who else?

But okay, what evidence do I expect? That the case has something more than a story held several years ago and several conflicts of different people with Ratimov where I don't see any parties which are right in their tags. You blame him that he deletes his posts to hide his crimes for years. But it is just an assumption, it was never proved. I walked through several of those deleted topics and didn't find anything compromising. If you can show that I just didn't watch correctly and there are multiple  cases of some wrong things which continued for years as you say, it can change my mind. I don't really think you have those proofs. As I said in this topic previously, Ratimov was the first one I ever distrusted, so I know he made mistakes in the past. He did a lot positive things before I changed my position and added him to my trust list. I'm not inclined in fast decisions, I prefer to think and analyse the evidence.

I'm not interested in what happend several years ago. It is probably true, but it was years ago. The things are changed. I suppose that all those who use that old case to leave tags nowadays are wrong: leaving tags basing on what is a matter of forum rules (like plagiarism) is not a consensus decision in a Trust system and an idea of forgiveness for old cases is something that is recommended. Leaving a retaliatory tag is wrong also.

So if there are no really new cases, then I'm not interested in participating in this drama. And when you are blaming people in different things just to involve them into this drama it looks not as good as you expect.