Since when is it acceptable to call other people idiots, complete retards, make racist comments that hold no background, in the forum?
It's not, and I don't agree with his hateful remarks. But it's his choice if he wants to be rude, and he has the freedom to do so. There's always the ignore button though.
If someone on the internet is mean to you:
boo fucking hoo! Use the Ignore button, and forget about them.
If we look at the intended use of the trust system, I don't think a negative tag is appropriate for this. A neutral with reference to this thread should be enough.
Negative (shown as
-1)
- If you believe someone is a scammer, or someone is likely to scam, that deserves negative feedback. Please provide evidence.
- If you really hate someone and he's a terrible troll, that does not deserve negative feedback.
Be the bigger man!With great power comes great responsibility (
source unknown). Especially when you're on DefaultTrust (or if you want to be on DefaultTrust in the future), you shouldn't (ab)use that power by leaving (negative) feedback when someone does something you don't like. Your Sent feedback is what others use to judge your judgement.