Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on Today at 04:55:12 AM

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 04:25:22 AM

<snip>it prevents any single account from becoming too firmly entrenched in DT1. And you know what they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we've seen that more than a few times around here (not mentioning any names, you'll have to use your imagination).

Oh, I've certainly seen DT members abuse their positions for various reasons but because other DT members can keep abusers in check, any corruption of power (absolute or not) is--or should be--corrected by the system.

The way it is now, I have to wonder how many members on the list should really be trusted by default. Maybe it's working out better than the old way, but way back when I was first put on DT2 it was a big deal to add any new members, and their trustworthiness and overall reputation were scrutinized before their DT1 "sponsor" included them on their trust list. Perhaps I'm being too pessimistic; the rotating system has been in place for quite a while and there haven't been any disasters that I know of.

The disaster is that half the users in the lottery and on DT2 have no clue what the heck they're doing IMO.

The old system with 12 DT1 and a handful of DT2 was better, but of course had its flaws. Overall though, most that were in DT were pretty trusted. The people in DT had a clue and weren't scared to death to use the system correctly. Now we have 100 eligible for DT1 each month and all their inclusions which ends up being likely over 1000 users in DT1 or DT2. Of those 1000 (just a random number could be way more), 500 are scared to death that any ~ gets them disqualified from campaigns or gets them tagged by the person they put the ~ on. They're just using the system to add people, get +trust, and be accepted into campaigns easier. I don't agree with that at all.