Topic: [Publicity] For accuracy, add any 3 DT members form this list to your CTL. (Read 198 times)

I’m still pretty conflicted with the idea of selecting people from a list as a base to create a trust list, when the majority of people do not know what the trust system is about, not likely care for it, and may just rely on the DT as it is without having to do anything at all.

at least three users from the list should be picked to keep your trust system score accurate.

From previous threads on this topic, I understand that a custom trust list does not comprise of people who you trust in trades, but members whose judgement you trust and recognize their ability to make important decisions without bias or prejudice.
For members you trust you can leave a positive feedback.

I know as a newbie interested in customizing your trust list it's kind of difficult if you haven't traded with any user to trust their judgement or familiar with the active scammer busters

The current 4.160 Custom Trust Lists are a net 278 up from the toll on the 05/01/2019, so objectively, the changes in the Trust System have not brought along barely any new net Custom Lists. Although the changes really applied on the DT front, there was an encouragement to create our own trust lists (although with just Meta visibility):


Many of those 4.160 trust lists are related to forum members that are no longer active. For example, I make it roughly around 2.473 belonging to forum members active (logged-in a least) since June 2018, and the number drops to around 1.150 if we consider forum members active during 2019 so far.


Having said that as a general context, I’m pretty sure the vast majority of forum members do not know about Trust, and at best, see some coloured numbers related to profiles, and may know that they originate in something called something like DT or so.

Persuading people to create a custom trust list is perhaps not a great idea. Many may not engage or interact with others enough to trust them (their judgment in principle), and getting them to create a trust list may have even the opposite effect of what could be considered a good move.

If people were to create custom trust lists under some sort of pressure, rather than a self-aware decision process, and include a few people that the interact with, everyone would be seeing different versions on the trust score numbers, and only if they drill-down to the ratings (both trust and untrusted) would they get a cleared picture. For the vast majority, I’d say having a DT view will suit their needs best (which in general are none).

Where I’m getting at is that I’d say it is way better to have a DT trust view, than a very small trust view with a not too good a choice custom list member composition.

Taken to an extreme, if Custom Trust lists were to be mandatory from a certain rank onwards (or activity), people may end up copy/pasting other people’s trust lists just to comply. The most popular copied trust list would be a sort of DT-alt set of forum members.

Why would you need to pick 10-20 users when you don't know or don't trust?.