This is a scale of Success to Failure on the forum. Where do you land?
While completely accurate, this is
precisely the issue with DT dynamics at present. Members see it as a ladder to climb, not as a moral compass to adhere to. It lacks integrity as it focuses on the accumulation of power and little else.
Next do one based on integrity, there are various different "shooting yourself in the foot" type of metrics you could use, here are just a few examples:
- Red trusting someone who has given you green trust, knowing that it will likely reduce your trust feedback score by having green trust removed, because accurate feedback is more important than your own feedback
- Adding a user to your distrust list who trusts your judgement, ie backstabbing, because you value accurate feedback more than being included in others trust lists, or the feedback you have received
- Actually growing a spine and acting and/or speaking out instead of staying quiet, regardless of how it effects your inclusions in others trust lists (a base level entry for integrity you could say)
I'm not saying anyone should sabotage their reputation or trust score, only that integrity should be more important that how powerful you are perceived to be, and that can often involve doing things which by default scarifies your own reputation rather than enhances it. Unfortauntely, members are all too often motivated to act when it has a perceived benefit for their own reputation, rather than because
it's the right thing to do. DT was never supposed to be about climbing a hierarchical ladder, it was supposed to be about reliability of feedback, but instead it's more about self-preservation than it is integrity these days. I even think ~Lauda had more integrity than the vast majority of DT members and their trust abuse was one of the worst ironically. Unfortunately the longer things continue as they are unchanged, the more these dynamics become ingrained as part of a vicious cycle of "being successful".
This otherwise isn't a dig at anyone in particular: especially not the OP who actually has some decent integrity, like numerous other DT members in fairness, but it's a small minority imo. Most just want to keep quiet to remain in their positions of power, be more likely to gain positive feedback from it, be allowed into signature campaigns, etc, etc. And if you are insulted by this analysis (excluding reacting with constructive critiques), then you are probably part of the problem.
