TornadoMudkip :   That is interesting. 10 +? But then not many trust points would be given out because of the lack of those.  

As for me I've seen a couple of members, get tp attacked. Thing1 would be one of them, and the second user I've seen was gameboy1023, and yea I've seen a lot of members get downrated from time to time, Without no reason. I was even one of them, Seriously The best idea for this type of situation, would defeintly be bombchu links Idea.

No I don't think trusted member are being attacked for their trust points, I think if you lose a trust point then you are doing something wrong. And I don't think staff is taking trust points I think some times the people who rate you up take their point they gave you back.

This happened to be before. I was a trusted member. I got my tp away from me for no reason. Since David added the new rule that you needed 10 tp to be trusted, I was okay with that. But since we got the 5 tp trusted member thing, i'm not so sure about it now after what happened to me.

Welp, this is what usually happened to me. I get trusted, and get attacked in a 24 hours period and loose it about 2 weeks after getting it. This has happened twice. That means this weekend should be when I get attacked again. 

So, do I think that users are being attacked? Yeah, I think it is safe to say that I think that is an accurate statement. 

Yeah, I mean a lot of members are being attacked for their Tp, and  lot of them are members that are getting trusted too quickly. I have only lost 1 trust pint after becoming trusted but I follow the rules and I waited a decent amount of time, but a lot of members are getting this privilege way too quickly and they are abusing it and they get attacked for being trusted either because they break the rules and abuse the privileges of being a trusted member by either taking or giving tp to others. So yeah I can safely say that this is true, thankfully I have not had this problem, but I have seen a lot of members becoming trusted extremely fast and they get attacked for it.

Yes I agree. I don't know why people just downrate innocent users for no reason. It's happened to me once. I had 3 TP and then someone downrated me and took it all away. Luckily, whoever did that gave me 2 of my TP back.

This whole unfair trust points rate down needs to be put to rest, if you lose trust points its usually for a valid reason and setting here complaining about losing trust points doesn't really show you deserve the trust points you have furthermore do some self reflecting and look at some of your actions on the board before you go and say your being down rated unfairly.

Divine Aurora : Well said.

I assure you that the massive downrates are not done without reason. Think about it: even David could only take away 5TP from a user, and a Global can only take 3 (I think), so in order to lose massive amounts of TP, the entire Staff would have to conspire against a member. Do we really think that would happen? Hardly. The conspiracy of "let's rate them down because they annoy and/or got trusted too quickly" would be easily discovered and shut down by the Globals. If someone loses extreme amounts of TP, they've been causing trouble. Of course they'll tell you otherwise, but it just doesn't make sense.

As for needless down rating on a smaller scale, it probably does happen, but it's hardly an epidemic. It stinks, and I pity those it happens to, but just remember, if you got to trusted status, just keep doing what you were doing that got you to trusted in the first place, and you'll get the tp back, and then some. It never fails, just keep your head up.

geeogree : i think its best to close this...thread. And i change my mind. i think there is a reason members are getting downrated..(maybe the staff's want new trusted members to work harden to get more trust points..but we cant be sure thats the reason)

will do.

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