Those ratings (or type of ratings) were approved by theymos.
Fair enough, if that's true then those ratings are valid.
Leaving negative trust to spammers is not approved by theymos.
That's partially why I sped up work on merit. I don't agree with using the trust system for pure spam; that's not what it was designed for.
Another way would be to reach an agreement with signature managers.
Re latter part: How do you do that? What happens in 2 our of 30 reject the agreement? How to prevent new managers popping up that don't accept the agreement? How do you enforce this agreement? While the suggestion may seem simple, it is most certainly not.
Agreed. That's a big problem. That's why I think making "
another complex system" is a better solution.
But my point is that we need to think of new ideas. I had 2, maybe they're not the solution, but we do need to do something.
I wouldn't put 'can't' there. We most certainly can, but apparently we shouldn't (better put, unfortunately we shouldn't).
Agreed again. We can but we should not.