I feel that Lauda does a lot more good than harm for the forum and that is why I keep him in my trust list.
I'm not going to be the only person that's disappointed by this being the voiced criteria and reasoning for this. I don't disagree with the statement, but I disagree that this should be the criteria for keeping them on your list.
There are plenty of people that do more good than harm that still do a tremendous amount of harm, so much so that it would be very dangerous to use this reasoning.
You should keep them on your trust if you feel that they are very unlikely to do any meaningful damage to the forum in a way that violates or abuses the responsibility that comes along with DT; plus there should be significant benefit for their addition.
This reminds me of Dave Chapelle's bit about Bill Cosby; "He saves more than he rapes!"
Ahh, the wisdom that is Chapelle!
I'm neutral on trust, but I feel that it is a flawed system, if for no other reason in that humans are involved and none of us walk on water. I lurked around this forum for a long time, off and on probably for years, like a lot of others, and then when I got involved in my very first signature campaign here (I had retired and had the time) the very first issue I had was Lauda and I going back and forth over them neg-trusting the campaigns manager. There has been very little consideration given to those few people who have been slandered. It seemed to me, that over time the DT system had become a means of a few dictating who and what the users of BTCTalk should see, ostensibly "for their own good".
The trust system has been a very centralized mess in a community that generally touts the buzzword of "decentralized". Awarding anyone negative trust without first having been in an actual interchange with them, those neg ratings with "I feel" in them, for instance, should be automatically removed and, probably in a perfect world, anyone that uses "I feel" as an evidenciary basis for pruning accounts they don't like seeing in the forum should be removed from Default Trust.