You still don't get it.
The trust system isn't just about trust ratings. DT is about having a good sense of judgment of who uses the trust system correctly. As a matter of fact, all the positive trusts anyone has accumulated over the years demonstrates nothing about their own ability to use the trust system correctly. You haven't exactly had "years of reliable and trustworthy behavior" in that regard.
I have actually. I don't use the trust system as a toy to serve my personal vendettas as you and the other clowns here talking the most shit do on almost a daily basis. Of course if you repeat a lie enough times people just start believing it. This is a flaw in human cognition you take full advantage of. Also as some one who has offered their reputation for sale, I am not sure you are the one to be judging my use of the trust system.
I don't think you will get answer to this one
I was really hoping you'd be wrong, but it looks like you're right.
Interesting, I got this instead:
Now I can only guess how TECSHARE thinks Last of the V8s compares to peloso.
(the links to my Trust list viewer don't work yet, this is my preview before going live)Last of the V8s is doing exactly what peloso is doing, he is just doing it more tactfully. I included you in my trust because you seemed to be more independent minded, but it is becoming more clear over time that you are yet another one who is cultivating this image in order to get your own ticket to the special boys club by throwing your weight behind a few key players. Like I said before, Switzerland is becoming Austria.
If you have proof of someone doing what you're describing (security threat, sockpuppets stripping reputation, obfuscating fraud, etc) you should bring that up and let the trust system do its work. As it stands now you're either making it up or hiding evidence, neither of which is a benefit for the forum or the trust system.
I don't need to prove it with examples. It is a fact. If it is possible to use such arbitrary and subjective standards to push people in and out of control of the trust system, absolutely nothing is stopping con artists from forming a collective of socks and real individuals to use that influence to silence others from speaking out.
We have already seen several examples of users unwilling to come forward because they fear the loss of their justly earned reputation for simply speaking critically of some of the actions of others here. If it is so easy to use such ambiguous and ill defined terms to remove what is so very difficult to earn around here in this sea of fraud, that being trust, then the ease of taking that away from users is itself a liability to the security of this forum.