Quote from: suchmoon on April 20, 2019, 09:11:28 PM

LoyceV, would you be able to calculate the sum of all trust scores of one's "excluders"? Or sum of merit scores? Perhaps do the same for "includers" and then calculate the difference. Or some sort of other metric in addition to the number of exclusions, which is heavily skewed by sockpuppets and bus-and-bicycle schemes.

None of that means anything when 15 people have sent 20.7% of all merit ever sent.

All any of that would be would be a reflection of the opinions of those 15 people....

Quote from: bones261 on April 20, 2019, 09:17:42 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on April 20, 2019, 08:03:19 PM

For some people on the list, it appears there is an effort to coerce people into distrusting them.

I can see where there might possible be an effort to coerce someone to either remove or not include someone on the trust list. However, I think when someone takes the extra step to actually exclude someone from the trust lists, that person is pretty committed to the idea.

Not necessarily when the person is being threatened with negative trust for frivolous reasons or being excluded for no reason. People tend to care about their reputations and generally will not be opposed to excluding someone if it means protecting their own reputation.