Oh look, here we are months later an all the same bad actors in control of the trust system again, only more of them. Much better.
The Administration isn't blind, but they are busy. I assume at some point they will step in if things continue to go this way. Personally, I'm hoping that once DT fills up, the older more knowledgeable members of the forum will be given precedence in the system by their userID. It's really blatantly obvious that the new users are working hard to gain control by teaming up to damage the reputation of anyone they feel stands in their way. When I look at my trust settings list, nearly all the older members are included, while nearly all the newer members are excluded. This goes way beyond coincidence.
At this point I am just leaning towards getting rid of the default trust entirely as at this point is is nothing but a system of ball-washing, not a system to show who is trustworthy. It has always from day one been vulnerable to abuse by a small handful of individuals, now they don't even have to explain themselves and they just stack up exclusions of anyone who is critical of them.