I'm so glad to see others talking about this.
A system of distributed trust like this is the makings of decentralized moderation. Decentralized curation. I've also had this idea on my mind for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975294
At that point, it doesn't need to be people you know personally; it just needs to be identities with a proven track record. If you can manage multiple identities, you could make ones e.g. for the explicit purpose of presenting a blacklist of bad sites you've found, or for providing a "front page" to a certain subject. Anyone is free to trust your identity or not, and choose exactly how to rank its actions.
This whole thing could be expanded to tagging and other metadata as well as comments, and so on.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691303