Getting a negative trust will not stop you from gaining knowledge and learning more through this forum, just reducing your chances of getting a profit.
Yeah agree with your thinking. Expanding knowledge or learning from forum is always appreciated and it has no connection with negative trust.
I thought OP was talking about apologizing vs abandoning the account, not leaving the forum entirely. Making a new account or simply not posting anymore because you feel bad with red trust doesn't stop you from being here, reading and learning. The important part is not to get angry and frustrated at people who don't trust you.
Leaving the forum isn't proper a solution In my view. Its another kind of disrespecting behaviour which again confirm that he doesn't care about DTs decission and forum community too. If anyone abandon his/her account that means he will come back again with another account including worse planning. At that situation its kinda harder to trace that person as a untrusted user. In this case if they try to reform themselves by following proper steps of getting apology then I think nothing bad in that.
I have better solution. Don't make shits which will result in steps 1-10.
Absolutely I am completely agree with you. If they really think about forum and their own then I hope they will not think to make any shits around this community.