Or maybe the merit system but in reverse, instead of people being able to +1 people, how about them being able to -1.
Well, I want to share a story with you.
I had joined a forum named
icoforums.net which was paying 1 ETH for 100 posts. It was really lucrative. Of course, I had joined with the intention to earn. But, I tried to contribute to the forum. I had posted some decent posts. Apart from that, I started to report the abusers and copy/paste so that the forum gets cleaned. I was able to remove the spams through reporting but in return what I got from users who were spamming?
There was an option called upvote/downvote. To be honest, I was one of the best users of that forum but you know what, my reputation was -17, because there were some users who had fake accounts and they were only downvoted all of my posts.
That's what will be happened here too. Trust, merits are not moderated. If there is something like -1, you can easily destroy one's reputation. And that's why there is DT member for trust feedback. Otherwise, I may create 100 of accounts and paint anyone I wish which would be visible to everyone.
Thanks for outlining your personal experience for us to consider.
Regarding the trust system: I recall reading some post(s) from theymos that indicated that either he intended to for the merit system to be a better proxy than trust so that in the future, the trust system might either be discontinued or to serve a bit of a lesser role (because the merit system would be a better vehicle for achieving some of the prior objectives of the implementation of the trust system).