I don't think this system is flawed, i think you're just saying this because you have negative trust.
Here we have the first guy "plausing" the oligarchs just because probably he want's to become one of them later.
You're just jealous that your troll feedbacks to the DT members don't count at all. Anyway, this was a community decision, theymos wanted to replace DT with a more complicated trust system but community(majority) voted against it, so here we are.