If someone got negative trust for lying, the trust rating of the majority of this forum would be in the red. It's not correct to use the trust system in situations unrelated to trading in this way.
It has become annoying that the trust system has been used for personal ambitions rather than trading in this forum for a long time.
Which is why i've said many times that we need a reputation trust system and a trade trust system. At least if we had 2 different systems we would have more things to complain about as people would misuse 2 systems instead of 1.
That made me chuckle--not because it's ridiculous but because the trust system is so ridiculous that its absurdity is deserving of such witty ridicule.
As to the statement above by EFS, I would have to disagree unless I'm not seeing all the evidence that the majority of the forum members are liars. That's not to say that I haven't seen hundreds of examples of dishonesty by scammers, bounty cheaters, and the like but bitcointalk has multiple millions of members. Anyway.
The trust system really, really needs an overhaul. When Theymos added the flag system, I just scratched my head and then rolled my eyes. When he made the default trust list a rotating system, I entered ~DefaultTrust and said I was done with it. But given how deaf he is to suggestions from the community I don't expect things to change anytime soon.
I had left DT for awhile until I read LoyceV I think saying something like leaving DT wasn't the way to improve it because we just leave a spot open for a potential scammer to get in. Something like that anyways. So I decided to make myself eligible again.
Liar or not, I have been trying to be a little more mindful of who I tag these days. Since we don't have an appropriate trust system for reputation, I think we misuse the current system. What other choice do we have though? Alts of banned people get tagged, someone doesn't like someone else and a tag happens, or a guy cheated a campaign, or 100 other reasons.
It is a joke in a lot of ways.