Topic: abuse of trust system (Read 797 times)

Well some people tend to ignore a user once they see a negative trust even from a non-DT, even from a Newbie. This will make your account not trustworthy to some members of the forum. I suggest Newbies should be banned from putting a trust on any user. Most spammers of negative trust are newbies though.

No. Admins only remove negative trust only when there is an obvious signs of trust spam[1]. Even so, it is fairly rare.

You won't get kicked out of your current campaign. Campaign managers usually use DT2 as the trust settings and decide whether they want to accept the user. Those users on DT2 doesn't abuse trust and it isn't easy to get there. People would most likely just ignore this trust comment since it doesn't make sense and have no valid reference. These comments are also hidden under untrusted feedbacks.

[1] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/some-asshole-just-left-me-negative-trust-theyre-not-on-any-kind-of-dt-list-1300556

Ran into a incident that I am sure is quite common but this was the thread that came up that seems to tap into the issue the most.

Last night a member that had already scammed people was deleting posts in his self moderated loan page.
This can usually be a no issue but I saw people requesting loans from him after he deleted comments from myself and Luptin repeatedly.
Luptin most likely knows the rules better than me and stopped but I kept posting warnings to at least keep him from scamming last night.

Profile of scammer:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/loanoffer40-802446

Link to scam accusation:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/loanoffer40-1407157

trust comment left and pm:

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!!! WARNING: This user is a newbie. If you are expecting a message from a more veteran member, then this is an imposter !!!
you wanna get kicked from your campain? if so keep posting in my thread.

Zeke2345 0: -0 / +0   2016-03-27   0.00000000      Because muthafucka scamma bitches ass niggas

Current loan thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/giving-micro-loans-newbies-welcomes-1407145

Warning another member that posted in his thread and his reply:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14328209

Anyways I figured I needed to show the story line to attack the issue. Is it possible to have retaliation trust flagged for removal once a account is seen to be a scammer and also not active for a set time? The comment is racist and thats really the only issue that I have for me personally.
The threat of being kicked from a signature seems to be a issue for people not speaking up against scammers with accounts say over jr. member where it does effect them.

Just thought maybe in the new forum there could be something set up to protect from retaliation comments for catching a scammer in the act.

Do not worry.
Trust system is used exclusively through those patterns:
- People completely ignore it
- People check for it deeply, which means if dubious people left negative feedback to you, it'll be ignored.

i notice alot of members perticularly new members who are found out to be scammers are abusing the trust system some members leave a negative trust that has nothing to do with being a scammer or dishonest at all  not sure what can actually be done to stop this just venting really