So if a scammer made it onto default trust (it is inevitable in a decentralized system rife with scammers), would excluding everyone that included that scammer remove the scammer from default trust?
If you ignore the
"DT1 voting":
- ~ing everyone who trusts user X without ~ing X himself often
won't result in X being excluded from trust networks.
- ~ing X himself without ~ing anyone who trusts X might result in X being excluded from trust networks.
- ~ing X himself and everyone who trusts him might result in X being excluded from trust networks, but
to the exact same degree as the above option. It doesn't function as some sort of "super-exclusion".
If you take DT1 voting into account, then there's one exception: if you're on DT1 and your exclusion causes someone to drop off of DT1, then this could help you in your goal.