So under the current system you are marked. in my system you just wouldn't be trusted by aou, as long as someone else i trusted trusted you i would "trust" you through the tree, it doesn't matter if people don't trust you (the default value).
Another way to do this would be in the other direction, if the "block" lists were public then we could "subscribe" so a users block list so that we filter out the bad people (or mark them).
I actually don't block anyone, but wouldn't mind a way to write notes about people i have negative encounters with.
Any which way you slice it, you are talking about a process where you aggregate other people's opinions in order to form your own. These days we have so many bad actors, shills, plants, feds, trolls, etc. that I do not think this is wise.
Now, in times like these, it is even more important to not take short cuts with your trust. My opinion. Take it for as much as you trust it.
i would say that if it was "an amount of trust" you might have a point, but if it is just a "yes" or "no" then it isn't consensus building unless you are going out of your way to block dissenting opinions. Also, i would just like to mark them, not demote or block them; and to reiterate, this mark would be on a different set of users for each user.
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