You were not and are not maintaining an impartial resource. I think everyone here agrees with that, but you. But you keep promoting it as such, thereby misleading anyone and everyone who has read it. Do you even know what "impartial" means? You can't have an impartial resource that is your "personal interpretation" those things are mutually exclusive. Impartial means you base it only on facts, not your interpretation. To further the farce, you even created an entire CATEGORY named BFL. How on earth do you possibly maintain that it is impartial? Do you even hear yourself?
Now, you made the claim that you "can't just rate someone a 1 because you don't like them" to someone else, and I pointed out that you are doing just that, among many other dishonest acts. I've given you fact based examples of why your guide is flawed and you've responded with more "personal interpretation" devoid of any supporting documentation or evidence. I also pointed out your inconsistent criteria that you establish and then throw away IN THE SAME POST, and yet you maintain that your guide is impartial?! Are you serious?
Then if it matters, why don't you lobby Theymos to fix it? If it works as intended, then the trust system should not so easily be gamed. If it does not work as intended, it needs to be fixed. Your livelyhood? What about mine? You saw a quick and dirty opportunity to jump on the BFL hate bandwagon to boost your guide to the trolls and you took it. Now you're complaining about it happening to you? Please. Cry me a river. Don't be so hypocritical.
Its impartial because I have no personal qualms with any company. You think I do, but that's your
opinion, it does not make it a
fact. The guide is my personal
interpretation because I am not a computer and as such it is not possible for me to pull numbers from the cloud autonomously. Therefore, this guide is my
impartial interpretation.
There is no category named BFL. There is a result tier named BFL, which BFL was promoted out of. And as explained earlier it is not a rating criteria but the RESULT of the rating. Such that an unhygienic takeaway is labelled as F, not any 'F's are unhygienic by virtue of being 'F's. Its also a
coloquial term for a less than perfect transaction.
You're trying to misquote and twist what I'm saying, again again. I've shorted what would be many, many, many ethical infractions which would put you far into negative points, into three letters because that's all that fits at this resolution and with what I can do with BBCODE formatting and 33,000 characters per post.
I gain nothing, NOTHING by your buyers being unhappy and I would love nothing more than for monarch to have come out in December and everyone to have been happy. You'd have made (more) money, buyers would have ROI'ed nicely, you wouldn't have had to do the PCB revisions, blah blah blah. Could have probably taped out the next gen and been selling in hand by now or something. And I'd have been happy for you, because again it does not benefit me what so ever for your customers to be unhappy.
Why would it, how could it possibly by so? Are you suggesting I somehow gain traffic by artificially lowering BFL's rating in this thread? Are you suggesting that for the 8 months this resource had no ads in, that increased niche of 'BFL circlejerk troll' traffic somehow made me money?
The trust system works as long as companies don't pay people to discredit those they see as opponents as you did. You're essentially saying 'you did it to me so I did it to you', right?