I agree with Jolly, threads like that are disgusting. Let the man rest in peace.
Leo's legacy will live on through his posts. We can honor him in other ways without resorting to desecration. I even saw in that thread that someone wished him all the best and hopes he is fine and well. WTF???
I read that too. Though he might have covered himself with the first part of his post, it really was sickening to read.
Not mentioning any names specifically but some members will gladly push their grandma under a bus without hesitation if it were to put loose change in their pocket therefore their fake dedications (or commemoration towards deceased forum members via poetic eulogies or claims of appreciating/missing them) are truly vomit-inducing.
Ironically enough, o_e_l_e_o did more than most to help build up new accounts. Rather than squash them with trust ratings he encouraged them to learn, even when they asked silly questions which they could have easily answered by doing a little research on their own. He gave more merits to newbies in the technical board than anyone else I can think of.
That might well be true, but if everyone did just as Leo did there would be nobody fighting forum idiots, of which there are thousands. In other words, we need members doing good deeds in a number of different ways.
That "happy birthday" thread was just straight-up idiotic. It was not only poorly-written, but the sentiment contained within was generic at best (which might have been a function of the OP's limited English skills, but still). While I think leaving that guy any sort of feedback for creating it is a bit harsh, a neutral is fine by me. At least JollyGood has calmed down his raging fury and isn't bombing negatives on people's trust pages anymore. I give him credit for that and for poking back at these members who do stupid things like merit fishing. Make no mistake, that's precisely what that thread was all about; if Leo had been so important to Ricardo11, the latter most likely would have at least stated that the former had helped him out somehow instead of the scattered smattering of flattery that got posted instead.
If you look at his
post history, (especially the very first post and full first page of his alleged newbie posts) you will not see anything on that account to indicate he was even a newbie to this forum. In all probability it is just another account in a list that are being operated by a puppeteer.
Keeping that aside, you are right. That
Happy birthday o_e_l_e_o. thread was created specifically for merits in order to expedite his next level rank from Full Member to Sr Member as he hoped
here.
As for the tags I leave, my
current feedback first page shows 50 feedbacks (16 negative and 34 neutral) going back to December 2023. In that space of over 14 months, I cannot see a single unnecessary neutral nor negative tag that I have given. The myth about my tags were started when a campaign manager became a business partner of a scam casino and had a
one member in particular defending him when several members including myself were not interested in defending him.
Ironically, that same
one member allegedly had his account hacked some years ago and used a second account to announce the alleged hack and wanted to claim the original account back. Even though he distrusted me for absolutely no constructive reason at all (but I have suspicions), I supported his claim and he even sent me a PM calling me "brother" but never did take me off his trust exclusion.
After his defending of that campaign manager over the scam casino, he started using every opportunity he got to create threads asking members that trusted me to distrust me. Now he finds himself negative -DT most of the time over an unrelated matter (but because of DT rotation sometimes has +1 as he does now. Next month it might be -4 or -6).
Returning to the myth about the tags I leave as a result of the vindictive conduct of creating threads against me by that member, I stated this on several occasions in the past and will reiterate: when repeated again and again over a period of time some people tend to believe the propaganda.
After I am gone from the forum, if a gutter-level lowest of the low barrel scraping despicable account (newbie or known/suspected farmed) claim to appreciate me or miss me as they race to get as many merits as possible and as fast as possible (in order to enrol on campaigns, cheat bounties, manipulate DT or anything else), every member should free feel to tag the accounts because that is what I want to happen if they use my name or memory as a metaphorical violin playing sad notes to get both sympathy and merits.
I think a neutral tag is necessary to put some sort of a mark on this account, backing this with the number of "boot-licking" threads that have been created by them - on well reputed users or
campaign managers - the second one was used to put a neutral tag on them by @pakhitheboss 6m back.
On the forum both "Merit" and "Trust" becoming more decentralized, recently people are looking forward to make up threads with nothing but praise about some event in the forum in the attempt to gain the above two things. This is not the first time I came across such a thread also the reason why I detest from posting in such threads.
He left his
feedback for Ricardo11 over 5 months ago over this nonsensical thread
Top 9 Campaign Managers of 2024..... but Ricardo11 is still claiming he will improve the quality of his posts.
His feedback is valid and relevant even today:
He comes up with delusional topics. Creating a neutral tag to understand that this guy is not suitable for the signature campaignsI understand he is from the Bengali speaking community and maybe his financial situation is not good therefore he wants as many accounts as possible to enrol on campaigns but he is not only chasing living people (campaign managers) in an attempt to get noticed, it is sickening he is chasing the deceased too
