Some members of the community have been using the forum's trust system to give negative trust to people who engage in certain activities which aren't explicitly against forum rules. In these cases, users are marked pre-emptively as untrustworthy in cases where members of the community feel they are likely to be scammers, even if they haven't yet scammed anyone. In some cases, they may be legitimate users who are uninformed. In most cases, I think it's working as intended.
For now, these activities appear to include:
*Asking for a loan without decent collateral, or as a member with <50 activity
*Posting obfuscated referral links
*Making many worthless posts (for example, posting "Welcome" in every newbie introduction thread)
*Attempting to buy BTC with Paypal
*Using sock accounts (with some exceptions)
*Selling goods or services as a relatively new member without using escrow or sending first
Will update list as more trends are discovered.
Topic: "Soft" rules to prevent getting a red trust rating (Read 403 times)
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