Most people use their trust list to list trading partners there or other people they trust, what's in most cases not harmful or at least useless but in some cases also dangerous.
Exactly! You spoke my mind and certainly the minds of majority here. Trust has been turned to a clique circus. Rub my back and I rub yours kind of arrangement. The same way the Merit system works now. That's why I don't just give a damn about them.
Trust is a very controversial topic and renaming one simple word could already save us from most misunderstandings or other trouble resulting from it.
It even baffles me when some DT members have to tag someone because of what they perceive in their wisdom (wrongly though) as spamming. That isn't what Trust is about. But then being a DT member doesn't automatically bestow wisdom on anyone.