I don't agree with his statements, but I also see this as not worth fueling the fire either. Rather you 2 just ignore each other and move on.
I tend to agree with that, though I do find those claims interesting to say the least. Vispilio obviously thinks there's some grand conspiracy afoot, the details of which border on lunacy.
Funny I haven't seen cryptohunter and his posse of alt accounts posting for a while now. That schizophrenic gang of trolls had some ideas that were almost as strange as Vispilio's, and their hatred and distrust of the DT list were very similar. You don't suppose they're on a plane to Turkey, do you?
2) Grossly incompetent characters with no qualifications or skill sets in any field have mysteriously achieved deep DT1 status. Case in point, jolly NPC; furthermore they are disenfranchising entire sections of the forum and many innocent parties with their toxic negative rating spam.
I only have the gumption to respond to one of your points, so I picked this one at random. I'm not sure what kind of skill sets or experience one ought to have in order to be on the default trust list. It seems to me that the main thing would be that you'd have to be a member with a history of being trustworthy (in whatever way that would be measured). And yeah, the entire trust system falls short quite often, but DT members who get caught making some wrong calls as far as leaving feedback or doing something sketchy tend to get booted pretty quickly.
Theymos's last change to the DT system which has members rotating in and out has had some mixed results as far as I've seen. I kind of prefer the way it used to be, but even that had some serious flaws.
I'm curious as to where all this vitriol directed toward the forum is coming from, Vispilio. Is it because of the Chipmixer campaign or just the persecution complex you have which leads you to think the entire Turkish section is just a collection of victims of various offenses.