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Trust is more complex than it seems. In principle, the Trust system is there to help one have a measure of the person he is considering trading with, based on the evaluation of others that have traded with him in the past (be it a positive, neutral, or a negative experience). Nevertheless, Trust is being used for more purposes that are not strictly based on a trading transaction (such as merit abuse cases, account buyer/seller, troll, etc.). While these alternate evaluations of one’s profile may be useful under certain circumstances, they do not necessarily abide to the original spirit and context of trade.
Besides the above, DT (Default Trust) feedback is what the majority of us use. DTs normally think things through before giving a trust feed-back (that’s why they are set as DTs), as opposed to untrusted feedback that can be given by anyone whose criteria and reputation when giving their feedback is often yet to be known. Untrusted feedbacks tend to sway further from the original trading objective than trusted feedback, but it’s a complex topic that has a couple of recently active threads on Meta on the matter, such as:
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Is the Default trust system still working/active? -
Can we regulate the trust system ?-
List of inactive DT1 & DT2 from long period, I think need add more to keep fresh-
[Explained] How Trust Score is calculated Currently (see
Analysis - DT Depth 2 - Profile Distribution ), the Trust vision that the vast majority of us have (DT2) would lead to us seeing around:
- 1.940 profiles with positive trust
- 14.969 with negative trust
- The remaining profiles lack DT2 trust rating.
