That's not always true. If the DT feedback were so perfect, why would we have a thread about an 'unfair' feedback every other day? The Feedback left by the DT members in most of the cases are rather personal. The judgement doesn't have to be fair nor it is in most of the cases. Giving the ability to a few members to add anybody to the list just shows how centralised the DT system is. To sum it up, people sucking up to each other are often added to the list by biased means. I can show you number of actual contributors to the forum who work hard to keep the forum free of spam/scam and they are no where near that list.
The DT system is centralized but I think while it is not perfect it works 99% of the time.
As long as a clear reason is given a reader of that feedback can determine whether to trust that person or not.
It is only a warning. It doesn't stop them from posting or conducting trades.
Too many DT2s also can be an issue. When there has been a fight among them the negatives can really fly - and that can be detrimental for the whole system. For such reasons it is good to keep it as a small group that respect and trust each other - regardless of whether others agree.
This way at least most DT2 feedback is consistent. I have seen the DT2s in action and while I don't agree with everything I have not seen them being extremely unfair. I have seen a number of times where they have asked for more proof or given the benefit of doubt or have not tagged a person because they consider them to be a contributor (despite their obvious flaws). Ultimately it is their personal decision as to whether they want to tag, warn others or punish the user.
You can literally get a negative feedback from the DT member for anything.
Having said that, you can always customise your DT settings by adding only members whose feedback your consider appropriate.
You can get a negative for a variety of things. It is up to that person to determine whether they trust you. That can be highly subjective.
Things like merit abuse, account sales, participation in the hype of a dodgy coin all are dodgy but subjective and dependent on the damage done.
For instance - I have strong views on account sales, ponzis, dodgy ICOs and phishing scams. I have less strong views on merit abuse.
(Rather than tagging merit abusers it is better to "report their shitposts" and if they get perma-banned the merits are permanently gone)
Eventually the airdropped merits will run out and merit abusers will become history.
It doesn't mean that they don't all deserve to be tagged but it is up to that individual DT.
Customizing your setting will only determine what you see on other peoples profiles. Other users on default settings will always see your trust if it is from a DT.For example: read my red tags, I dare you to find a single scam victim of mine, this forum is operating based of giving freedom of everything to people including freedom of abuse and harassment. once you speak against a DT member they'll find something on you to tag you red.
Usually scammers would do that, when you try to expose them for what they really are, they get stupid and would try to bash you with everything they've got, in our case it's DT red tag.
I thought you wore the negative trust like medals.
Firstly - I have no issue with you. I think that some of the DT2s might even like you a little bit as a form of stockholm syndrome or masochism.
From what I read is that you got the negatives initially for advocating for other users that got negative feedback. It meant that you were representing people that were classified as scammers.
While this may have been of noble intent but the DT2s found that untrustworthy. Tagged users are able to put their case themselves in the reputation thread.
It is a bit like if you start picketing a police station because someone unfairly received a conviction. You may get arrested for being a public nuisance.
Whether it has been fairly given - I'm staying out of that discussion - but I'm not sure whether your feedback does you much harm. It states that they find you a troll. It isn't visible in Meta and I doubt it would stop people from doing a trade with you since there is nothing there that indicates that you would steal.
It may even give you more credibility with those that feel they have been unfairly tagged.