"This user has been reported as soliciting vouches from other users"

Waiting for a slash 😆 neutral review wow not even negative

Hello. I’d like to start by acknowledging that I made a mistake, my actions at that time were inappropriate. When the discussions about global and local reputation first began a couple of months ago, I panicked a bit. Since most of my contacts were within the CIS community, I reached out to a few people outside of it, asking for vouches in DMs. While those individuals and I had mutual follows on Twitter, I understand that this doesn’t justify my behavior. In fact, almost no one responded to those messages, and those who did, declined. Still, I went through my profile again and removed any low-quality or questionable activities. I take full responsibility for what happened and have made sure this won’t happen again in the future. If you have any specific concerns or questions about any of my remaining reviews or vouches, please let me know, I can explain and stand behind each one of them.

The vouching mechanism is designed to reflect genuine, staked trust within the community. Soliciting vouches, either privately or publicly, from people the user does not know is a clear attempt to game the system and create a synthetic credibility score. This action fundamentally violates the social constructs of Ethos, which aims to be a platform where reputation is earned, not manufactured. Therefore, I am voting to Slash this user as a defense of the platform's core integrity.