- You must be of Legendary rank.
Rationality: How much time someone has spent on BitcoinTalk, which is signified by Rank, will also have a value along with his/her quality of post, which is signified by Merit.
IMO, to be added in Trust list of others, users should have either trustworthy or contributions over their time in the forum. There are some components that build up trustworthy and reputation of one user:
- Contributions: Good post history is a plus point; good threads is another plus point, and merit history with regularly received merits is another significant plus point.
- Trustworthy: Through tradings with others, through scam fightings (scam accusation threads or posts).
Actually, being added to a trust list means that your
given trust feedback to other users is accurate and valuable for the community much more than being actually a trustworthy user. It's quite possible to be on DT while you haven't done a single trade but exposed tons of scams instead and the left feedback by you is valuable for other users to prevent them from being scammed.
About the suggestion: it's an interesting idea to take the rank into consideration but I'm not sure if it helps. I can see 2 disadvantages by doing so:
- New users registering after Merit introduction will have a disadvantage compared to users ranked up before (possibly with low effort posts). Theymos is known for disliking too much restrictions for new users and obtaining a Legendary rank would take almost 2 years.
- Such a change could encourage account sales of high-ranked accounts when scammers are trying to abuse trust.