It would be great if the trust rating of the person posting was displayed next to their thread post. So i dont have to click on the thread to see that it was posted by a scammer. That would be donation worthy to me 

Huh. That could be useful. Maybe a checkbox option in profile menu to turn it grey like an ignored person's, or grey out the OPs name in thread-browsing, or red it out. Something simple to let people know there's something up before they even click without being too in-your-face.

An option to automatically ignore people with a negative overall rating might be interesting, too. Maybe the server would maintain the list, a user can click "add negatively-repped members," and have the list populate from server data. This would also achieve the effect of graying out neg-repped OPs.

The whole Trust thing is just STUPID.

Tradefortress has recently come after me on this trust system.  He's apparently irked about something on coinchat.  He doesn't respond to pms but his accusation says that he 'risked' 1.5BTC on me.  As I've never received any btc from him on this forum personally, and he has me blocked for pming him, I have no idea what to do about this accusation. 

Another point is that I've never bought or sold any bitcoins, ever.  Now that tradefortress, a "VIP" member has branded me as untrustworthy, I suppose that trading on here isn't an option for me if I were to be interested in the future.

Seems to me that the trust system is too subject to abuse by powerful members of the forum.  I'm not sure what to do or how to resolve the attack on my reputation by a a powerful user here who even has my pms blocked.

Seems like a mistake. TF is a a bit of a bully though. No worries just make a thread about it and the truth will come out. Ask for him to provide evidence.

Nah, it won't keep people from trading with you.  They'll just require you to send first, or they'll require that the transaction use a trusted third party to hold the bitcoins in escrow.

I think it would help new people if someone would sticky this thread.

I definitely suffered from his escapades.

Has DefaultTrust been changed? I am using DefaultTrust with a depth of 3.

A few days ago, not many people would show up as Trusted Feedback. Now, many more people are under Trusted Feedback when I view someone's trust.

Actually I strongly considered adding you to mine a couple times, since you are a pretty active trader and have been around for a long time, but some of your feedback seems based on personal problems. For example one of your feedback comment says just "sucks dick", and another is "bully troll".