i'm no dummy, but i'm still confused. this system seems overly / unnecessarily complicated
how does a member make it so all other members don't have to fuck with settings to see all the trust?
It seems complicated because you're trying to make the trust list do something it wasn't designed to do. If you could game the system into showing people the trust you want them to see, it would massively benefit scammers. At it's basic level, the trust list is basically this.
When you go to trade with someone, you would check their feedback first right? Naturally you would give more weight to some people's opinions than others, those are the people you would add to your trust list, which is basically a list of people whose feedback you value more than others. That's what the trust system does, it takes the feedback scores from the people on your list, and makes it pretty numbers that are easy to quantify at a glance.
Trying to control what other people see is counter to that, which is why it's confusing you.