I quite literally predicted this would happen:
A bored Newbie with a hacked Legendary account could pull this off. Then exclude all other DT1 accounts, and the hostile takeover of the trust network is complete (until manual intervention).
I can imagine other communities will make their own DT1 "clique": for example a group of Russians, a group of Indonesians and a group of bounty hunters. As long as they stay out of each other's hair, they can co-exist. The moment they touch, it feels like a black hole collision competing for exclusions.
The old DT-system felt like it meant something, the new system changes every few hours.
A notable suggestion by the user peloso (post #47):
~Vod
~SaltySpitoon
~TMAN
~Lauda
~Blazed
~suchmoon
~owlcatz
~yahoo62278
~actmyname
-snipped inclusions-
He's willing to overthrow several thousand ratings on scammers in order to get "strength". If that isn't a sign of malice and collusion, I don't know what is. Naturally, he's also a (caught)
merit abuser. So far I have only tagged him, but it is likely that more users deserve it.
This is the topic where there is an exchange of views on the new trust system.
This is analogous to the topic DefaultTrust changes, but only in Russian
If you believe that publicly colluding is analgous to the DT changes announcement thread, then you should stay far away from DT.
I'm most disappointed that xandry read the thread (and naturally understood it), and kept quiet about it.