Hey kid, thanks for sharing your voice here. Dont get in over your head, I cant nominate a "forum section (Meta)" to the default trust list. When US hosted the world cup, Fifa didnt grant every nation that continent to join the tournament.
But in all seriousness, lets get this out of the way, I have no interest to get to the default trust depth, at least not now.
But the fact that people are even considering 'voting' for me or in other case vouching for me - even as a joke - shows how flawed this system really is. The very reason that this topic exists is because I am trying to point out how useless and monopolized the trust system really is.
Gaining trust is so damn easy, all you have to do is suck up to a couple of guys, bust some scams and viola! you are IN the top circle of the trust and all of a sudden you have the power to declare that this person is suspicious, I am a "COP", I have a gun and I'll shoot this bastard down. No I am not comparing guys like Quickie Boy to real cops but stating how things can get out of hands.
There are more than one instance where this theory has failed and has ruined a profile and you know what gives next ? The person simply recreates a another account or even better BUYS A HIGH REP ACCOUNT and the fact that a same IP is allowed to create / own multiple accounts is also appalling. I know banning multiple IP logins isnt fair but at least create a tracking system like Bitlendingclub where similar IP accounts are shown to the public.
We are at the forefront of the Bitcoin revolution on this forum and this forum is riddled with cheap politics like this,
WE NEED TO CHANGE.I agree with the thurst of this post pretty wholeheartedly. I find it quite ironic that there's a trust system where people are jockeying for trust points and others are playing cops-and-robbers with it, meanwhile the "cops" are selling accounts so the whole thing is a kind of nonsense. Did you guys see the sarcastic thread in meta a few weeks ago where the guy proposed selling trust directly? People flipped out and didn't get the irony. "You can't buy and sell trust!" they exclaimed. But you can buy and sell trusted accounts. Alas. People love points and points systems, especially the kind of people who play a lot of video games and hang out on forums. Anyway, you put these trust points out there, people gonna jockey for them. There's a lot of nonsense to it but to hear it from the trust rangers, you'd think they were saving the world from evil.