It looks like a ton of new people, especially non-English speakers, think that DT are staff/moderators. They're not entirely wrong. After all, DT members *are* capable of effectively "banning" accounts from conducting any business here.
That's not true, though. I've seen cases where people with negs from DT have no trouble whatsoever doing deals here, depending on what the feedback was for, of course. A lot of members apparently don't even check a person's trust page before deciding whether to transact with that person--and that's how many of them get scammed, too.
In your case, I would check carefully to see that you hadn't employed a shill on an auction of yours before I bid on it, but otherwise I'd have no issues dealing with you because of all the other positives you've received. Negative trust from DT members isn't the kiss of death a lot of people think it is.
It's a huge mess and power fight around the DT right now. Please do something about it. Some measures to disincentivize abusal of DT is needed.
It's not such a huge mess, though there are problems. I've had to remove some negatives that I've left when evidence showed that I left them wrongly, and I suspect there will be more. Vod's not part of that sort of issue, IMO. His feedbacks are generally very accurate, and he has a reputation of being quite fair.
However, I agree with his feedback on you and that what you did was extremely scammy. There's no auction house in the world that I know of that would allow someone to place a bid on his own auction--even employing shill bidders is almost universally either frowned upon or illegal. If you realize what you did was wrong (and I haven't been following all of your posts on this) and haven't repeated it, Vod
might be kind enough to remove his neg, though I wouldn't count on it. His rating was honest. But you left not one, but two retaliatory negs on him and I don't expect that's going to sway his opinion in your favor.