There have been a lot of talk about trust, friendliness of Bay12 and stuff. I'd like to present my ideas.
SH is just a game. However, it's also a game where no good deed goes unpunished. Even when someone is very friendly towards you (which should alarm you), you might get your bank account hacked and all your software deleted. That happened to me. Whenever I crack an IP and the owner of that PC starts talking to me from the logs. I immideatly take a precaution and start queuing delete processes on his software. Once, I have been stalled by a funny dialogue with a complete stranger. As I keep refreshing his logs page and writing answers as he wrote things to keep my attention away from my logs, he just kept deleting my software. Another time, I upgraded the software of one of my slaves and what did I get? Deletion of two of my softwares.
Because of the nature of this game, people tend to be paranoid and catious. This isn't about Bay12. The game simply requires you to play the game like this. Since you can literally change your identity in the game by changing your IP, people tend to be rather reckless when it comes to dealing with other people. This is the way this game is played and I never take offense when someone becomes wary of me in this game. It's actually kinda cool when people consider you as a threat. Sometimes trust can't be established even in a Group. It's every man for himself.