Again, all
good things.
Get rid of all the people just here to make money off signature campaigns. It will reduce inflated forum advertising rates. The forum will stop attracting scam ICOs because all the gullible fools will have left.
That was the dilemma Theymos has been facing for a while. High traffic comes with spam, especially in forums, and we have seen that this forum was operating at a loss in previous years but in 2017 had a profit, and that profit was linked with the amount of spam.
If he took radical measures against spam, the forum could lose most of the traffic and others could take its place. He first created the two new non-signature boards. That was a very light measure, although it could be seen as a first step.
Then, after the DT upgrade of some members, something was needed to be done because Theymos thought of that system as a tool for prevent scams and fraud, but not shitposting. However, some members were massively giving negative trust to shitposters.
I don’t know why OP is so worried about the trust system now because the end of this story, the merit system, was the solution to that problem. So, if someone is a scammer, he will be negatively trusted but if he is just a shitposter, he won't be (at least he shouldn’t), but he won’t be able to rank up, either, because he won’t get enough merit, thus he won’t able to make money on this forum.
For me, the new system is a good idea, better than the non-signature boards. We will have to wait time to draw conclusions, though, but it seems to me that spam will be reduced, and traffic won’t be so hurt. Some people who weren’t making efforts to make good contributions, will make an effort now, some won’t because they can’t even if they try but the overall picture looks good to me.
