Dooglus, was there actually any reason behind the loan to tspacepilot other then to give him positive trust? As far as I can tell there is not based on the facts publicly available.
I made the loan to see whether he would pay it back, not to give him positive trust. If he hadn't paid it back I would have given him negative trust.
If there was no legitimate reason to give the loan other then to give a trust rating then you were giving a reputation loan and there is no room for you in either level 1 nor level 2 default trust and should be removed and excluded immediately and should receive negative trust because those who give reputation loans do nothing more then give credibility to those who ultimately plan on scamming.
I'm not aware that it is against the rules to test people's trustworthiness. But I don't think I've ever seen a list of rules, so maybe it is. That would seem like a strange rule though. It seems to me that it is better to give ratings based on evidence than on heresay, which is what I did.