A few other DT members from Indonesia have discussed what deserves feedback and what doesn't, among which the main focus of feedback is for buying, selling, and lending issues (
[INFO] DT1 dan DT2 yang berasal dari user Indonesia).
In essence, my fellow Indonesian DT members and I agree on the following admin statement:
I do not view it as appropriate for trust ratings to relate primarily to non-trust matters. By giving someone negative trust, you're basically attaching a note to all of their posts telling people "warning: do not trade with this person!". If we can get DT working well enough, in the future I'd like to prevent guests from even viewing topics by negative-trust users in trust-enabled sections, so you have to ask yourself whether your negative trust would warrant this sort of significant effect.
In particular, in my view:
- Giving negative trust for being an annoying poster is inappropriate, since this has nothing to do with their trustworthiness. If they're disrupting discussion or never adding anything, then that's something for moderators to deal with, and you should report their posts and/or complain in Meta about it.
- Giving negative trust for merit trading and deceptive alt-account use may be appropriate, but you should use a light touch so that people don't feel paranoid.
- You should be willing to forgive past mistakes if the person seems unlikely to do it again.
- It is absolutely not appropriate to give someone negative trust because you disagree with them. -snip-
In this forum, having multiple accounts and buying and selling Bitcointalk accounts is not prohibited as long as it is not used to violate forum rules. But I don't like the practice of buying and selling accounts, especially if the one who buys a high-rank account is a beginner (my thread regarding this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3070438.0).
Suppose the account bought and sold turns out to be an offense, such as cheating the campaign by using several alt accounts at once or committing fraud against other users by abusing the trust of the account he bought. In that case, I think it deserves a red tag, but if the purchased accounts may not have been proven guilty, I do not want to abuse my authority as DT1 to give them a red tag.