I raised this topic after a post by 1miau, so that the community can discuss some issues bothering me.

When I was a newbie, I was curious to know many things. I asked The Pharmacist what DT1 and DT2 meant. He sent me a link and explained briefly that DT1 are users trusted by theymos while DT2 are users trusted by the people theymos trusted.
After that brief explanation, I was curious why there is no DT3, DT4 and so on. But I didn't want to bother him the more.

My understanding of the trust system is that it is not moderated, just as scam is not moderated and also the merit system. But the abuse of any of the above is not encouraged.

• Is a user trusted based on how long he has been in the forum?: I believe the answer is No. You can be 5yrs+ here and not trusted while a user like EZ0010 with only 5 activities would be trusted much.
• Is Trust + what one begs to have?: My answer is No. The trust system is mainly because of marketplace activities (services and goods), in order to know who to do business with. Any other trust that isn't based on successful business or the case similar to EZ0010 is not cogent to me. Trusting someone because he bursts scam doesn't mean that the person cannot scam. Though it could give the user an expression authority to tag scammers whenever. Well, that is why every good trust feedback should have a concise and precised feedback with references.
• Must everyone be positively trusted?: My answer is No. I do not bother to build my trust list because till now, I am not involved in selling or services rendering. But I have many users here that I trust their judgement, but I don't think it's worth stressing myself about. The case of EZ0010 could be anyone else. Many users here including myself would send the money back to theymos, but because the incident didn't involve us, there's no way to prove. My point is, allow trust to come naturally, don't beg or pay for it.
• Should a user be trusted because he is a quality poster?: I leave this to the community to decide.
  Hint: Should a spammer be tagged? If a spammer can be tagged, it therefore means a quality poster can be trusted. Is this correct?
  Then a spammer could be neg tagged for spamming, yet he doesn't have the potential to scam as he has done numerous businesses. Lolx...the mystery of trust system.

My fear about the trust system which is in accordance with 1miau: If a group of scammers upto 50 persons are working together and one among the 50 gets a positive trust. He can in turn trust the remaining 49 scam users and they inturn trust one another. Then, the trust system would be compromised.