I think this is a clear practical example of how right LoyceV was when he said that the system is too complicated. Once you understand it, you even find what happened to bastisisca funny, but for someone who does not understand the system in depth it is still paradoxical.
This is true... (also thinking at examplen's post from above... It brings laughs indeed, but if you put yourself in bastisisca's shoes it doesn't feel funny at all... I understand both points of view.
I was thinking at a thingy though... it wouldn't help too much (perhaps it wouldn't help at all), but maybe one small thing which can be done about the Trust system and the trust lists could be to rename the section "Trust" into "Marketplace Trust" and also add a hyperlink pointing to the
Marketplace trust topic, which explains that
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...Or, another idea... to add a hyperlink on the "Trust" section pointing to LoyceV's topic with guidelines...? (And also rename that section into "Marketplace Trust"...)