I'm concerned about the negative trust rating in the OP. I checked the trust and it has nothing to do with Gladius, and the person who started this thread has not posted anything Gladius related in many months.
So is the OP not part of the team? If not, the team doesn't have a Bitcointalk presence?
I agree with you that it's not good to see that person having negative trust. Some just post the announcement for others as it seems, but still I would watch out for someone with neutral or positive trust ratings to post an announcement for me.
It's recent though, the trust rating wasn't there a few weeks ago. And it seems that the person got it for advertising his services of running campaigns or something.