I've wondered about that a little bit, too. It's one of the reasons I like the idea of incorporating all-time rankings in the rewards. Maybe someone did some great POW, but it was missed at the time, because the trust scores didn't realize how things would develop.

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This Day in Stacker News: June the 11th

Something occurred to me seeing these; we've retroactively applied current day trust quite a few times. It's kind of weird time travel thing, because people who weren't trusted then became trusted overtime and influenced our view of the past. Hmm there's something interesting there.