There needs to be a standard of evidence for negative ratings of some kind of documentation of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws. This would cut out SO MUCH of the bullshit we are seeing right now. The sky will not fall. The forum will continue. There will be less drama, more cooperation, more constructive users, less scamming (because they can't hide in the noise), and most importantly people can enjoy the peace of mind of generally BEING LEFT THE FUCK ALONE if they haven't harmed anyone else as is traditional in this community.
Yes, every tag should have some standards of evidence, there is no achievement in giving tag based on assumption which further relates to trust abuse. I cannot see any type of decentralization in the judgment as there are no fix rules to run the community or atleast not people with good judgment knowledge to run it.
A community with proper guidelines to what is right or what is wrong makes the things more clear and easy to handle as there is a base of rules to follow. An unguided moderation by DT just make it more worst not only for normal accounts but also for the DT in many cases when they need to explain every action they take. And I think this is obvious from the community to protest as they just don't know what things can lead them to a tag.
I too think there is an urgent need of forum endorsed guidelines to judge any case or else this is just turning into a total mess.