I voted for "Those who give reputation loans should be viewed as untrustworthy". However, it's difficult to prove that a certain loan is strictly a loan for reputation unless the borrower explicitly states so.

Like Blazed said, it's literally buying trust from whoever gives the loan. If we as a community don't trust trust farmers, then we should definitely not trust people who do reputation loans.

You might be directing this to the tsp/dooglus loan. If so, I disagree with that loan if tsp got the loan because he wanted to build trust. However, if tsp needed those CLAMs for his personal use for a temporary time, then I'm perfectly fine with it.