And as theymos rightly decided not to remove you from DT1 just cuz the users in your trust list will be affected and the feedbacks given by them will become ineffective, in the same way when you removed Ashish from your trust list, the trust given by him also started to show up as untrusted hence affecting the trust score of users.
How do you know he even wanted to remove me? You are just playing with my own words. Maybe he thought I'm good or trusted enough to be on the DT list.
Theymos removed CanaryInTheMine too and it affected several users. But you didn't said anything about him, maybe because it didn't affected your ratings.
If ashish was on my trust list, your profile would have improved right?
I never said that he wanted to remove you, and yes, you are trusted enough to be on DT1, absolutely no doubt in that. And you know it, CITM was abusing the trust system, you aren't.
As you removed Ashish because the trade relations between you two became inactive, so in the same way theymos could have also removed you from the DT1(for you inactivity), but he didn't cuz inactivity wasn't a reason for him to remove you, and cuz you were trusted and you had good people in your list, he didn't remove you and imo you are supposed to be in DT1, but in the same way you also shouldn't have removed Ashish from you list cuz inactivity of trade wasn't really a reason to remove him from the list, you've already had good trades with him and once you have trusted him enough to put him in your list, so there wasn't really a solid reason to throw him out cuz he was still doing legit trades and good deals and didn't scam anyone and as his account is still intact with him, so he again deserves to be in your trust list. And yes, his being in dt2 will improve my profile but this ain't the alone reason for why I am backing him up, its also that I genuinely feel that ashish's removal was not so justified and maybe you can consider adding him back to the list(cuz you know that his account wasn't compromised/sold and he didn't scam anyone). Just a suggestion, I have confidence in your wit.
Thanks.