Quote from: murraypaul on November 06, 2014, 10:04:07 PM

Quote from: TECSHARE on November 06, 2014, 08:32:48 PM

Do I didn't get all my trust for working my ass off for 3 years making sure everyone I trade with is satisfied? I never thought of it that way.

I don't know if this was in response to my post:

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Looks like default trust is turning into a good old boys network.

It is, by definition, an old boys network.
You cannot get in by your own actions. You cannot get kicked out by your own actions.
It is purely the choice of the existing members.

If so, then yes you got your feedback, and overall trust numbers by proving over time that you were a trustworthy person.
Was that what got you into the default trust network? I have no idea.
If anyone in DefaultTrust or DefaultTrust+1 trusts you, then you are in.
If they don't, you aren't.
You could be the most trustworthy person in the world, but have not come to the attention of the right people, and be excluded, or you could be a confirmed scammer, and still be included, as long as one of those people maintains his trust rating. Because of account reselling, they might not even be the same people who were originally trusted.
Your extremely positive trust ratings are likely to be a good indication you are trustworthy. Simply being in the default trust network is an incredibly poor indication of that one way or the other.
The default trust network is simply a bad thing. That doesn't reflect poorly on you.

I don't think you can fairly say the default trust network is bad without saying the whole trust system is bad. In both cases, the trust system assumes that people will be honest/trustworthy in using it so that you can accurately rely on the feedback. My opinion is that there are always going to be people that abuse the trust system (just want to clarify I'm not speaking to this particular situation, but generally), and that the default trust network actually helps to mitigate this issue by indirectly ascribing more value to trustworthy accounts. If people have an incentive to be trustworthy, i.e. to possibly 'make it' onto the default trust list and have a more valuable account, then they are more likely to be trustworthy.