TF was one of the most trusted people on here before the current trust system was even put into place (at least this is my understanding).
Not at all. He only had one highly suspicious looking lending website. He became "trustworthy" once he was put on DefaultTrust and was able to use it to silence people who tried to express concerns and reward people who sided with him. And when he was taken off of DefaultTrust theymos actually had to rewrite most of the trust systems algorithms because everyones rating were completely broken as a large branch of the trust system had been cut off.
I thought that's what Alt accounts are for?
Your alts feedback won't have as much weight unless it is also trusted, and if it is then you are still exposing yourself to retaliation feedback.
He modified it because despite the many negatives he had, he still had positive trust from what he had accrued prior to the "hack". It was the first time for that kind of situation so it was natural it was going to need some tweaking to be more accurate.
Lot of convoluted theories in here. Simplest explanation is that theymos has changed the algorithm, since this is the first major shift in trust on someone who had a lot of positive trust. I noticed that even after 6 or 7 people on the default list had given him neg trust he was still at 17x something.
Right. The Trust system isn't really designed to deal with "long con" situations, but it was performing particularly badly in this case. I changed the algorithm to more severely limit the maximum number of positive trust points you can get per month.
(I'm not saying that TradeFortress is or is not a scammer at this point, but someone with more than 30% negative trust ratings should have a negative trust score.)
I also removed TradeFortress from DefaultTrust (early yesterday), so his entire branch of the trust network is now untrusted by default.
I don't think default trust had as much to do with him being trusted as you think, I think it's more that people just want to blame someone or something besides themselves for being suckered by him.
Hes not on my trust list, when I click on your trust page I don't see his feedback. Whoever it is is just wasting their time as their feedback has no weight.
I know I have tried different combinations of people and depths to see what happens to individuals trust level numbers....and how going from depth 2 to depth 3 changes some from green to red.......
Depth 3 is fairly inaccurate, not enough people use exclusions.