I have pointed this out before myself, there are several negatives on his list for things that are totally not scam related, but apparently this is ok for people that are buddies of mods and staff, but not for everyone else. I was removed from the default trust list for a SINGLE INCIDENT of leaving feedback outside the scope of what is considered "Scamming" due to ONE COMPLAINT from some one who was clearly harassing me, but clearly VOD is on the special boys club list where he can abuse anyone he likes thousands of times and just say sorry and remove it and no one does anything about it. If VOD had corrected his behavior and became more careful about how he left his ratings I WOULDN'T CARE, in fact my opinion is people should be able to leave trust ratings for ANY REASON, and if the reason isn't valid the community can decide to start untrusting that user for abuse.
Unfortunately VOD has only gotten worse. Why is it that VOD is allowed to have stacks and stacks of complaints and he is not removed from the default trust, but some how my single incident was unforgivable and I was removed immediately. This is the kind of selective enforcement I was talking about previously. There are NO WRITTEN RULES, therefore the only standard one has to follow is the complete lack of enforcement seen with people like VOD. Yet we are supposed to know this is ok for him, but not ok for anyone else? THIS is why I refuse to shut my mouth about the subject. The staff foster an atmosphere of unwritten rules and ambiguity and selectively enforce the rules, but we are just supposed to know how all of this works from the outside. Complete bullshit.