What we have isn't a "trust system" is it a "popularity system". It is amazing how desperate people like you are to make this about me while you simultaneously chastise for making it about me when I attempt to defend myself.
You are making it about you. People use the trust system to decide whose ratings they want to include and exclude, as they're perfectly entitled to do. Then you complain that everything they're doing is because they don't like you and that there should be rules in place to prevent people including and excluding who they want because apparently it's all a vendetta against you.
You accuse others of making it personal, they start accusing you of stuff and it becomes yet another shitty thread full of pointless drama. You wouldn't
need to "defend yourself" if you hadn't opened the hostilities and just kept your mouth shut to begin with. Again, stop being such a try-hard. It's annoying. If you really do believe it's a popularity contest, you'd think you'd be smarter than to piss people off so readily. Please give it a rest.
To be fair: I have witnessed TEC's claim of trust abuse first hand in a recent thread.
Some of his claims are definitely correct; and my chain of calling out vod in two threads recently paints a clear picture of this exact type of abuse that happens.
I will leave it at that. Nothing more, nothing less. Take it as you will.