My nice 37+ rating (earned over 2-3 years) turned orange -1 without having ever had business with that "man" immediately.
Your rating was 0. None of the users that have left you positive ratings are part of the default trust system (depth 1 and 2), therefore their ratings don't affect you score unless you have a custom list (which seems to be the case here).
To sum up:
Gregory Maxwell is shit
Bitcointalk.org trust system is shit
Whoever invented it thought shit
Whoever has a different opinion about it than me now is also shit.
This is not going to help you. Anyhow, why did you wait so long before posting this?
Maybe it should be split off into a separate thread.