I rarely come to this side of the forum and it's generally because of this.  I'll give my 2 cents if anyone cares, to me trust is squarely built to help guide of who to trust and not to trust when transferring coin from one person to another and trying to keep things as safe as possible (maybe other people use it for other reasons but that's what I look at it for).  Clearly DT in its state is broken so I dont use it at all.  I used to give trust ratings based on my trade experience but I rarely do anymore because well I dont use it.  Here's my stance, if I've traded with you before and generally trust you I will probably send coin back and forth without escrow.  If I dont know you and never traded with you and I'm not comfortable exposing myself with the size of the trade....USE ESCROW. always.  I always encourage people to use escrow if they want with me, it's not offensive, that's how we can keep this forum working without going off the rails.  I've done trades with people that were "red" and "green" and newbies on their first post...all done properly it always goes smooth.

If people leave me negative feedback, ok fine.  Not everyone IRL have 100% liked me why would I expect that to be different here.  Read it, if it's relevant change what you've done, if not move on.  Who cares?  

I dont know just seems like a lot of time is spent internet fighting that could be spent elsewhere.  I have never made a custom trust list because I feel I dont need to.  Either I trust you, I dont or I dont know you.  Use escrow based on that and I'm good.  

DT will never be perfect because personalities will get in the way as with any subjective system in life.  DT seems broke, has there been any better ideas to fix it?

Edit: I've met phillipma IRL and the dude has gone WAYYY out of his way to help me out multiple times.  That is one of the most legit members on this forum definately