I do think that TEC has a point in regards to the perceived trust of someone that catches scammers.
The issue with applying so much value on those that seek them out is that you almost have a single point of failure. Consider, if you will, what you learn from someone who has caught many scammers in their forum lifetime.
You know:
1) they are good at catching scammers.
2) they are more likely to have better character than someone who does not catch scammers
Neither of these points would aptly make you think, "this is someone I ought to trade with, without using escrow."
If trust scores are of any value to you, then I expect you to send a significant amount of bitcoins to one of the top 10 "most trusted" users and then ask for it back.
As for me, I have only used escrow once over the past year... not because I used the trust system on-forum, but because I used my personal trust system: logic. Just don't put so much emphasis on trust.
This post does have some value however the 2 points you claim are not essentially things you can know are they?
1/ they may just spend more time looking for small time scammers
2/ they may not be spending time doing other far more important things for this community that would have a far greater positive impact
3/ they are only doing it with motivation of gaining position from which they can conduct a larger scam or just to ensure their position into power/thus greater rev streams
4/ their alts could be responsible for setting up " potential scams" for them to bust.
You really know NOTHING or very little because a person has busted a lot of small scams.
Case in point lauda?tman? nutildah?. Do we really need to analyze their entire observable past history and the proven financial wrong doing and highly probably financial wrong doing?
5/ I see a direct correlation between obsessive scam fighters in many cases and those that demonstrate clear double standards, at times being scammers or scammer supporters themselves. Not to mention their character seems to be shaped from a life of being bullied or rejected or some other form of damage that made them the kinds of kids at school that told teacher if your swore. Willing to support any argument they can benefit from financially themselves.
The valuable part of your post is
There is no reason to TRUST these people in a trade/ or trust their opinions any more than people who are not scam fighters who have conducted many successful high value trades, or many others that have contributed in a large way to this community... That also have zero observable instances of financially motivated wrong doing. Sure you may trust some of these scam fighters with small amounts since they value their power and chipmixer et al payments. Trust them with a 5 BTC or greater trade without escrow ? no. Trust OG or Tecshare or a long term legend with lots of trading history and a ton of post history to examine, then yes that would be possible.
I notice ALL the obsessive scam hunters are busy spamming the highest paying sigs they can or perhaps 2 or 3 if they can keep their sock puppets from posting using the same receiving addresses. This demonstrates greed and sneaking to us. We notice many are supporting trust abuse and scammers.
This is not a good character.
What you can likely assume about obsessive scam finders here.
1. third world or poverty cases seeking to gain some merit and recognition RAISING YOUR OWN PROFILE
2. will be spamming the highest paying sigs they can from the outset
3. will be supporting the arguments of anyone handing out merit or DT members
4. will be applying to chipmixer asap
5. may well wind up on the dirty turds poll thread.
6. will abuse the trust system if you ask about inconvenient historical events in their post histories or those histories of DT members
7. will be cycling merit with the best of them
8. employing clear double standards
9. some could be AUTISTIC ( a positive thing in some scenarios)
these do not apply to all but actually a nice big proportion of them that we have looked at lately.
Usually your points are pretty strong and robust. We feel saying you know those 2 things in the light of the observable behaviors here... are less robust than usual.
Morobozo is likely semi autistic ( it does not come across positively in his case) then again perhaps if one were to go to a casino with him ??
I mean if you went with him , lauda, tman and nutildah... then that casinos odds don't look great.