No bud, we are talking about trust not trust-lists, people interact quite closely and get to know each others judgement in that section, I am in numerous Slack, discord and telegram rooms and that is why some people I have transacted with I also have on my trust and others I do not.
Yes trust list, that's the main part of this: trust, trust list and how they are different.
If someone you trust very much left trust only to you and almost nobody else then it doesn't make sense to add them to your trust list. Even if you also trust their judgment it wouldn't be useful for the forum to add them as DT2 if they haven't left feedback to too many people besides you.
I'm not saying you're abusing, I haven't checked your trust list and even less so the behavior of those people. I'm just pointing out how the trust list works and how trust is not the same as trust list.
I would trust a few people who have positives from me with all my bitcoin but I don't necessarily trust them with DT.
Yes. Exactly. This makes me think we mostly agree and are just having problems with the terms we use.
Edit:
How easy or otherwise would it be to calculate how many of those selfscratches are only included by that DT1 user in question, for the full list of DT1s, the same as you have done for Dabs?
I did this by adding only one user to my alt's Trust list, so it's too much work to do.
There are also cases such as Lafu (DT1), who's "Selfscratched users" didn't make it to DT2 because of DT1 exclusions.
I've created this list:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5144068.0