The original reason that the trust system(originally a scammer tag) went into place was because Theymos was getting requests from people to ban "scammers."
edit: who determines this?
Administrators.
It would be awesome to make the scammer mark invisible to the scammer so they keep on longer than optimal with the same account.
The idea is to give them an opportunity to defend themselves or make things right. I have removed the status a couple of times after the users paid back their victims.
I instituted this system because people were pressuring me a lot to ban scammers, which I was unwilling to do. I do not want to be the final arbiter in these matters. So I created this status to warn potential victims without preventing the scammer from defending himself.
People marked as scammers are also unable to delete/edit any of their posts or modify their profiles, and their IP addresses are banned from creating new accounts.
Since Theymos does not really want to be put in a position to investigate every scammer, we now have the trust system. Anyone can participate, as you know. Also, the current trust system is less stringent because a "scammer" can now delete/edit posts and create new accounts. Would you prefer that we just have a system where administrators ban "scammer" accounts? Or do you just want to remove the trust system and let scammers be free to find new victims?
Trust system is nothing. I am here for 5 years. You can give negative trust one of a scammer then he creates a new account and scam anyone. Easy. Trust system is just for trusted members gang