Quote from: Taras on November 13, 2017, 07:05:12 PM

Quote from: Lauda on November 13, 2017, 05:33:20 AM

Quote from: Decoded on November 12, 2017, 09:40:45 PM

I do remember reading theymos' post somewhere that the new forum was going to be released "next year". That was multiple years ago.

That doesn't necessarily imply a completely revamped trust system.

The new forum software's Github organization has a repository with the BitcoinTalk trust system (or something very similar) so it doesn't look like there are any plans to change it. If it is genuine, this script appears to tell more about how scores are calculated than any other source I could find.

edit: Here's a rundown of the algorithm, from my understanding of the script linked above:

The variable s is the trust score, and it starts at 0.
1. For every unique positive trusted feedback, add the age of the feedback in months (up to 10 months each) to s.
2. Round s down to the nearest whole number.
3. If n is positive, subtract 2ⁿ from s, where n is the number of unique negative trusted feedbacks.
4. If either s is negative or n is 0, skip to step 7 now.
5. Set s to the number of unique positive trusted feedbacks left since the time of the earliest negative trusted feedback minus the number of unique negative trusted feedbacks left since the time of the earliest negative trusted feedback.
6. If s is negative, in this scenario the trust score will display as "???" instead of a number. If s is not negative, keep going.
7. If s has 5 or more digits, then cap it out at either 9999 or -9999, depending on if it is positive or negative.

The trust scores are displayed as s: -n / +p, where p is the number of unique positive trusted feedbacks. If s is negative, then it is "red trust" and the "trade with extreme caution" tag appears. If s shows as ??? then it is "yellow trust". If s is at least 5, then it is "light green trust". If s is at least 15, then it is "dark green trust". If n is not zero, it will be bold, italic, and yellow, so that it is more visible.

I ran through the steps for a bunch of people in this thread and it all adds up right so far.

Pretty much how it works, yeah.

Quote from: Lauda on November 13, 2017, 05:33:20 AM

Quote from: Decoded on November 12, 2017, 09:40:45 PM

I do remember reading theymos' post somewhere that the new forum was going to be released "next year". That was multiple years ago.

That doesn't necessarily imply a completely revamped trust system.

Dunno of it was some rumor on reddit, but supposedly the 4 Devs working on epochtalk have been working full-time since 2015.

If they're just transferring current functionality and the exact same broken, manipulative and hateful trust system to a totally new one built from the ground up, what have they been doing for the past 3 years?

Cool. New CSS, probably mySQL integration, and - what else? Some PHP scripts?

Come on. What's going on, really?

Anyway, I'm going off topic. The forum trust system is broken. Most people use it wrongly, and the people who use it right are in a ways helping them. This leads to people abusing the system, and those people who try to fix it themselves by not giving out trust go against the original reason it existed.

It's a trust/feedback system, not a list of kings and queens.