Quote from: OgNasty on January 06, 2015, 05:41:08 PM

Quote from: theymos on January 05, 2015, 09:26:16 AM

Here are the 50 users with the most points using the algorithm I described. The top 30 are always the ones suggested, but their order is randomized.

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theymos | 471.3498 |
Tomatocage | 192.7250 |
dooglus | 181.7917 |
BadBear | 180.2750 |
CanaryInTheMine | 153.0830 |
HostFat | 144.6331 |
gmaxwell | 133.5581 |
Akka | 109.1663 |
BCB | 104.3748 |
escrow.ms | 101.2499 |
phantastisch | 99.6915 |
ghibly79 | 65.8998 |
Michail1 | 65.2249 |
Maidak | 62.5085 |
Sampey | 61.8499 |
BigBitz | 58.6833 |
ziomik | 58.1333 |
malevolent | 52.4748 |
sublime5447 | 52.4665 |
Stemby | 51.0416 |
Dabs | 48.2251 |
Nightowlace | 47.6417 |
klintay | 46.5750 |
Raize | 44.0998 |
bitpop | 43.7249 |
fhh | 40.5083 |
zefir | 39.2083 |
squall1066 | 38.5001 |
philipma1957 | 38.4251 |
PsychoticBoy | 35.5750 |
KWH | 35.5581 |
terrapinflyer | 34.8666 |
binaryFate | 33.8332 |
Bicknellski | 33.5084 |
DebitMe | 30.1501 |
elasticband | 29.8501 |
TECSHARE | 29.3915 |
LouReed | 28.9249 |
2weiX | 28.6999 |
ManeBjorn | 27.5749 |
miaviator | 27.3333 |
androz | 26.2500 |
bobsag3 | 25.9415 |
nachius | 25.2916 |
CoinHoarder | 23.3749 |
mrbrt | 23.1249 |
EnJoyThis | 22.5167 |
WEB slicer | 20.3749 |
Rub3n | 20.0251 |
Ente | 18.9750 |
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A quick glance shows that I'm not one of the 50 most trusted members here? That's somewhat shocking to me. I also see that bobsag3 who openly scammed me and had his original username scammer tagged is on the list, adding positive trust for companies like Black Arrow who have stolen hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars from this community. Very disturbing because I thought the trust system we had in place was working out great and holding up well as evidenced by BFL_Josh's failed trust sabotage experiment. If you pay close attention to your trust network and use it appropriately, it is quite accurate in my opinion. I worry that this new method is already off to a bad start when I see known repeat scammers on the list who would give newbies a positive trust rating for companies like Black Arrow. Again, I just took a quick glance.

While I dislike the proposed system, I will explain why you are not in the top 50 under the example theymos posted, and there is a legitimate reason for it. People gain points on that list by being added to someone's trust list manually. Since you are at depth 1, few people have had any reason to add you to their personal trust lists, so you have a very low score. As you can see, many users who are high up in the top 50, such as Maidak, simpey, and BigBitz are not in default trust at all. The reason they are so high on this list at the moment is because a lot of people have manually added them to their own trust lists, since they are trusted traders but not in default trust. Their scores would be much lower if they were in default trust, since people would have no reason to manually add them. All trust lists would be reset if the new system was put in place, and you would almost certainly be in the top 10 once you are no longer automatically in people's trust lists.