I used to avoid anyone with -ve trust, I hardly quote them or reply their quotes and they were somewhat few then.
But recently, you cannot go through a page without seeing atleast 7 users with -ve tag, especially in gambling section.
A certain gambling site that has been considered as scam and also has been recruiting signature campaign participants to promote their site are the ones being referred to here.
Remember that quoting someone or replying to someone with a red tag is not a bad thing. Discussion can happen between anyone and a scammer is allowed to rebutt their claims, otherwise this would become a kangaroo court.
These users are wearing signatures, doing other things normally in the forum as if the -ve tag doesn't really matter.
A negative tag does not equal to ban. Therefore they are allowed to post.
If the number of negatively tagged users keep increasing, it will reach to a stage that majority of the users in the forum would be negatively tagged and hence could fault the essence of the trust system.
A number of users being tagged because the community considers them as outlaws but still allows them to remain free to post, is only a demonstration of free speech allowed in the forum and a show of the essence of the trust system. I have been in the forum longer and I think the system is working as intended.
By a way of checking if some of these users were tagged without genuine reasons.
Or maybe as a result of increase in scam companies advertising their projects.
DT does not tag without reason or claims that are very likely to brand the user as scammer. Use your common sense here, if you never do anything wrong or cheat by some trick, you will never be tagged by any DT. Flags and tags are going to be reassessed with time by the users who gave them, but a genuine scammer deserves their tag.
Whatever way, if not redressed could be damaging to the forum.
Nope.