While it isn't what I had envisioned, the change is welcome. I certainly didn't expect to find myself in DT1 with this change.

I'm guessing this could be the result of you being excluded earlier, which may have caused more people to add you to their custom lists in order to see your red tags.
i would still suggest a set of rules regarding the use of the trust system, specially the negative trust, some people are tagged for silly reasons or without a reference, with the new update of the DT list it's even more important now to agree on some rules that will some how regulate the trust system so people don't get tagged for using the word "lemon".
I know this could be hard to implement, but i think it's essential, for those who trade on the forum with an account that took years to build, getting a negative trust for saying something a DT member does not like is differently unfair.
again i can't forget to thank you for the all the efforts. Thanks for trying to improve the forum continuously.
This change may affect how those negatives are viewed and countered. I think that more passive-aggressive countering (via exclusions) will be possible so anyone with a lemon fetish will probably not last long.