And now we know. There was implemented an additional color system indicating good and bad contribution of some users. Main aim is to improve overall quality of forum posting. And red circle is a really bad mark. There can be up to six different colors of this circles at the moment, this marking should help campaign managers.
This is something completely different and the basic idea is not bad, it is simpler to recognize the real rank of users, especially for campaign managers. It is also useful for me because it will help me not to waste time reading some nonsense.
However, I think that it is not very well executed, it is quite centralized, the admin has added some additional duties to himself, and it can be quite unclear how these badges are assigned. At some point, this can only open up additional discussions as to whether someone was fairly or unfairly assigned a certain.
You get the point really clear enough, I was actually thinking exactly same thing after I finished reading the announcement of this new development in the thread posted by admin, unfortunately, the thread is not open for discussion, esle, this is exactly the issue I wanted to raise.
Admin said in the announcement that not every user will have this dots, that only those, based on reposts about them; will have the dot, does not matter the color, could be red - which symbolizes negative trust, or green - which symbolizes positive trust as stated in the announcement.
Maybe going into the future, we will get a clearer picture of how this is programed to work, but I still feel that admin should have made this feature decentralized where by, it's the forum users rating of users individually that directly decides or determines who gets a red pill, and who gets a green pill next or under their username.