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.
You got my thoughts 
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.
I never thought about making loans to build reputation, how can a borrower get a reputation? the lender should be the one who should get a lot of reputation, not the borrower 
LOL, your words are touching me, because of the fact that I have a loan with DarkStar_. What's worse is BTC is plummeting and I'm at a loss, if things don't get better I'll probably have to cut my losses to repay him 
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.
LOL 
I wasn't brave enough when things got out of my control, it's embarrassing when my secret is exposed, I guess But like said, according to me you are a trusted member of the forum based on what you write and how you approach things.
Oh mannnn, I love this so much 