I decided to exclude banned users, and to exclude users if they haven't had at least 4 different people send them merit in the last 4 years. This'll be what I use in the reshuffle happening in the next couple of days.

I changed the meritor criteria from my original idea because the new criteria has roughly the same result, but it addresses JayJuanGee's preference for 4 years, and LoyceV's concern that getting 2 distinct meritors is too easy to game.

Some stats illustrating the difference:

So the pool of eligible voters will go down from 13549 to 4119, though this won't actually have as much of an effect on the final output as you might think, since most of those eligible voters don't actually have anything in their trust lists. After the change, as of now, these users lose their eligibility for DT1: be.open, Best_Change, digicoinuser, finaleshot2016, Harkorede, Heisenberg_Hunter, joniboini, Koal-84, KWH, mandown, Russlenat, and stoos.


Yes, I think it's a good behavior. Though since the current shape of the probability function was basically an accident, the exact shape is maybe not ideal. Perhaps it should be more or less steep, or asymmetrical (eg. maybe people with -2 net inclusions should have a lower probability of inclusion than people with 2 net inclusions have of exclusion).