Quote from: dogie on September 16, 2014, 07:50:23 PM

Quote from: Gleb Gamow on September 16, 2014, 07:46:41 PM

Quote from: Inaba on September 16, 2014, 06:15:17 PM

Quote from: dogie on September 16, 2014, 06:06:43 PM

Quote from: Inaba on September 16, 2014, 05:39:15 PM

Yes, because the "energy" was so tremendous. It took all of about 20 minutes. Nice strawman.

As for your negative ratings, do you agree that the trust system is broken? Then if so, your rating doesn't matter.
If you do not agree, then the rating system is working as intended and your rating is just.

In either case, it doesn't matter. But to answer your flawed conclusion... let me ask you this. How many people have seen your biased guide containing all manner of false information? More than 327 I would imagine. So I use you as an example to show a flawed system and you in turn post false information and mislead many more people with your guide. You probably shouldn't talk about ethics.

You targeted me because I was maintaining an impartial resource which stated clearly that it was my personal interpretation and to be supplemented by a buyer's own research. That's what the -9 BFL category was for, quite simply because I didn't want to make a bigger deal out of your smear campaign or draw more attention to it should you be the target of any retaliation.

You would have picked up OOF or OFL anyway and still be on 1 point regardless so it made no difference to your rating. In fact, I think you're equivalent rating has gone up quite considerably since you started your smear campaign - even ignoring the fact that you just went up more than any other company in the last adjustment.

Of course it matters, I earn my livelihood from relationships I develop - both current and new - from these forums. You saw a quick and dirty opportunity that might benefit yourself at my expense and you went for it even though you knew it would almost certainly damage my ability to do business.

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.

Hey, dogie, when are you going to invite me over to your half million dollar home fully paid for with bitcoins from your personal account for dinner to discuss over eats how Josh sold EMC to BFL, but lead ALL its customers that he, alone, was the sole proprietor until it was realized he hadn't been since at least Q4, 2012, thanks to a press release depicting Sonny's probation, et al., via court documents?

[I'm confused, have you crossed names in this post?]

No I did not. Josh expressed concerns about his livelihood, and I turned it around using his recently purchased home via bitcoins, assuming your livelihood is not as good as his.

All four of CoinWares sister companies have tens of millions of Monarchs on order, none of which worried one iota about this thread, ergo Josh's livelihood is not in danger of being disrupted.