I think the trust system does way more harm to the community than good, it should be removed IMO. The amount of people I get direct messaging me on Twitter complaining how they stopped using this forum because of issues around trust is noticeable, or ranting about Lauda. I don't think these people are necessarily scammers either.
If I am not wrong you are very less active on forum I mean you are not spending much time on this forum. So your thoughts isn't wrong, because you are not aware about current situation of forum. It's true people's leavening this forum, let them leave. We don't need too much scammers here. For example, many ICO's scammer has been trying to promote their project on this forum. But unfortunately their scam activity exposed and got tag by DT1 members. So eventually they leave this forum and choose other forum to promote. So let them leave this kind of people's.
Better to just remove it. I'm sure the overall happiness of the community would go way up. Let people figure out for themselves if someone or a business is trustworthy, as they do on the rest of the internet.
In my opinion current scam rating on forum is 10% overall. If removed trust system no doubts it will be 80%. Perhaps even people's will try to scam you(LOL). There is lot of negativity about bitcoin, so will we leave bitcoin?
That's the problem, scammers aren't leaving, productive members are. Scammers just buy a new account and return instantly. Wrongly accused people just watch months or years of effort get wasted and say fuck this place.