I don't think it is about protecting their feelings.
It's not really about protecting their feelings
Really, that's what you both took from my rant?
No, seriously, I get it. But what's the worst that can happen with those ratings visible? It's just a possibility that someone
may see the opinion of a red-trusted user as less valuable. And perhaps it is. Or isn't. If said user is concerned about it I'd call it hurt feelings, nothing more. Quite regularly someone would dig up my untrusted feedback and call me a scammer so trust visibility has little to do with people being idiots about it.
Bottom line - why don't we leave it to users to decide for themselves. We expect everyone to fend for themselves in the ocean of scams proliferating here but we hide a tool they could use. Keep in mind that scammers don't follow the rules when it comes to posting their scams. If you enable trust ratings in Project Development they'll use some other board where the ratings are not visible.
As I said before, I wouldn't have a problem with it being shown everywhere, but I'm just reiterating theymos logic/reasoning for not doing it. Maybe he'll change his mind or maybe he won't. Hopefully he will comment to update us but I wouldn't hold your breath. Like you said, people do dig up people's feedback as a point of attack and often when it's not relevant but when it's there in your face it tends to get brought up even more. Again, I'm not saying that's why we should keep it like it is. Showing the feedback will almost certainly lead to some people not being scammed because of it and personally I would prefer people to not get scammed than people bickering ver reputation issues but it is what it is.
