- Demerzel
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Posted by: sesquipadelian
can you please explain to us how the automated trust system will recognize and quantify his good attitude? how will the system assess whether his posts are constructive or not?
as far as i can see, we have no reason to believe that the trust system takes the quality of a post into account. from what we have heard, we should believe that bans ding your trust rating and that time and making additional posts that do not warrant bans will improve one's ranking.
so, for anyone who wants to earn a member title, all that he has to do is keep his account active (log in, make posts) and avoid bans. it is just that simple.
I thought about that for a while, too, and I came to this conclusion: posting constructively might not be detected by the system, but it can still be taken into account. The moderators are the ones who take the quality of posts into account -- for example, if a post is illegible and inflammatory to the point where it's more or less spam, that person could receive a vacation, lowering their trust rating. So, my two cents would be that quality of posts do affect your trust rating, but indirectly.
I would agree with everything else you said -- essentially, as long as you don't do bad stuff, your trust rating shouldn't be shrinking like a cotton shirt in a dryer. OP, I can't imagine that your three-day ban will last too terribly long on your trust rating.