This is clear abuse of the trust system and exactly why default trust is BAD. Very Bad. As the title infers.
I never asked him to trust me. I never asked anyone to trust me. If you could legitimately be awarded negative trust for personal opinions we should all be at -1000 by now.
Anybody wanna step up and interject here? It would be appreciated. MsCollec seems to think he/she should just be able to leave people negative trust for any ol' reason. It sort of defeats the purpose of the system, wouldn't you agree?
You got it the other way around, I fear.
Anyone (User A) should leave any trust he wants to anybody (User B).
BUT there shouldn't be a Default Trust, so that unless someone User C specifically wants to trust User A, User B's rank for him will be unaffected.
That's how you build a working system.
The current one is dumb.
Yes, I agree with the second half, but doesn't being able to leave trust for anybody at any time obliterate the definition of "trust"? Why not just call it "negative karma" or something.
For the longest time I was under the impression you could only collect negative trust if you were in a trade and didn't deliver. Ironically, "negative trust" left by a default user over their disagreement with my personal opinions supersedes positive trust left by a non-default user which involved a trade.
So I agree with you and accept your premise, so long as the default trust list is removed (or MsCollec is taken off it... I mean, c'mon people, what kind of world do you want to live in here??).