According to you, trust and reputation, are they related?
To me a lot of trust builds someone's reputation. If a lot of people trust someone, they are considered reputed in the community. That's my understanding of reputation and trust.
Up to now, I have been working hard to build people's trust. It can be said, I have tried my best up to now.
Maybe that's the problem itself? People trying to build reputation intentionally sounds like people who would take loans without any need just to repay them and build some reputation. That is not the right way to approach it, in my opinion.
I really feel grateful to him, he gave me a new sense of trust, for his trust in me. I don't want to talk about my credibility on this forum, and I'm not aiming to assert my credibility, this is just a story. I'm just amazed someone believes me so much.
It's good people trust you but I think it has more to do with people and their nature rather than your credibility. I mean people are getting scammed by impersonators because they are naive and blindly trust them.
Everything said though, I think you are a good and reputed member of the forum and although you purchased the account you can be trusted, at least if you are selling something and I want to buy it, I won't hesitate one bit.
The problem why you negative trust still is in place is because of the stories you came up with when caught. If you admitted and apologized initially maybe you didn't even got that feedback. I read everything before posting this so that is my understanding of it.
But like said, according to me you are a trusted member of the forum based on what you write and how you approach things.