When I look at the Hierarchical view of the default trust network, I see that he is roughly in the middle of his trust list, that appears to otherwise be in roughly the order that people were added in.
That list is ordered by user ID, not added time.
I think the main problem is that the trust system has given members that haven't proven themselves responsible enough the ability to mark someone's account with negative trust, and essentially ruin the account.
Any inaccuracies will eventually be fixed. I'm not going to allow the default trust network to contain inaccurate ratings for long.
It seems as if theymos abandoned this policy fairly quickly and is long gone.
There should be guidelines for leaving trust if you are going to have your trust ratings show up by default. Granted there are the descriptions of each of the types of ratings, however some people seem to think they are no longer applicable, both because they have said so and because they give out ratings contrary to the descriptions.
I also agree with Wardrick above in that many are in DT without anything resembling a trade history. Many of these people are power hungry and wont see any real repercussions because they never had a business prior to obtaining DT power (that often has recently resulted in additional positive trust ratings).
There doesnt seem to be any accountability for mistakes in regards to trust ratings anymore, this includes both the person leaving the ratings and their sponsors.
I personally think xx should bring back TC and let him have similar influence in the trust system as he did previously, that is if he wants to.
Anyone who leaves a negative rating for personal reasons and doesnt even pretend it is for reasons related to someones trustworthiness (like Vod likes to do), should have no place in DT. Someone who is inaccurate even a small number of times should not be in DT until they can show they will no longer make mistakes.