Inactive doesn't make their feedback inaccurate, so inactive users being in DT is still relevant.

How possible is that, are you going to ask those that included the inactive member in they trust list to remove the market to take off their DT rights?

Far from that, inactive doesn't change anything regarding their previous dealing that earn them the trust that get them into the DT in the first place.

There is no point in getting anyone inactive from the DT member unless they have shown an attitude that could prove they are not to be trusted. There are members who, even when they are not active again on the forum, their contributions still hold an impact based on the type of feedback they have given to accounts they have personally had encounters with. Getting them off the DT list will free all the tagged accounts, both positive and negative. One such case happened in the past when... Lauda was removed from DT

So in a nutshell reputation and past legacy means nothing if the person is no longer around
It's like saying the opinion of someone that's no more shouldn't mean much even if it's true.

I believe people atleast have the right to trust who they choose to trust and shouldn't be dictated by the forum
My two cent.

You need to learn how to quote correctly. I am not saying that a user cannot return to the forum again after many years, i am saying that can they really maintain same reputation that made other DT members to trust them years ago. Since you mentioned Laszlo here, we are aware that the profile woke up after many years and i think they haven't made a post but supposing he was to be a DT member, can we tell if his reputation years ago will still remain the same now? what if he has a questionable character now and has ulterior motives for coming back to the forum don't you think that many people can fall for his trap due to the idea that he has a past reputation that was trusted by many?

You need to learn how DT works. If you know how it works, your question answered.

DT1 is added manually by Theymos. He selected the DT1 members from DT2.
DT1 members can added people. Anyone added will automatically become DT2.

Theymos will remove inactive people from DT1, but he can not remove inactive people from DT2 because they are automatically added by DT1 members.

But as many years passes and no DT1 added them because Theymos removed those DT1 that added the DT2, or in a way that the DT1 later become DT2 and no one added him to DT2 anymore, the person will finally be removed from DT one day

With time, they will all be removed but it can take many years or decades until theymos will removed DT1 before something like this will happen.

But the way DT2 is, your request can not be accepted. Not the admin that added them but DT1 added them.

Nope, if it's working, don't touch it.

If someday, theymos want to rework the usage of trust feedback, the current members will able to put the inactive DT members on distrust list, because it's no longer relevant.

Or if someday the inactive DT members come back to this forum and leave inaccurate feedback as many as they want, people would put them on distrust list too. It's not something important to be honest.

I do not know if it is done manually or automatically, but I just want to prove a point that if DT member has been inactive for so long on this forum, there is possibility that the member will later be removed from the system. The link you even posted up there showed how easy someone can be removed from DT1 and if we think about it very well, also we can see how it can later lead to someone being removed from DT2 if all memebers that added the person are no more active and removed from DT1.

If someone who is in DT and got inactive comes back and doesn't maintain the same reputation from the past, they will be removed by those who are still active, and if there are other members who trusted them in the past and are now inactive themselves, the currently active DT members can red-tag the account and specify that the previous trust scores are irrelevant and shouldn't be considered.


As explained by someone else earlier, removing someone from DT who has left the forum might free a whole army of accounts that the user had tagged during his time in the forum for the right reasons. So, it basically defies the purpose of the system because if old DT members are removed only because they are inactive, whatever has happened in the past will suddenly become totally irrevelant and that shouldn't be the case, and records should stay, forever, or at least for as long as possible.

DT system is quite decentralized, even it is not perfect decentralized, so you can not remove any DT member and his trust feedback just because of his too long time of inactivity.

Your question is asked many times by other forum members and there will be no big change on it: remove inactive DT members and related trust feedbacks.

Individually, each forum member can exclude other members even DT members from his trust list.

theymos has his latest post on this issue.
it's still in consideration only.