It seems you are unclear about the concept of public perception. If the perception is that a bunch of rouge DT members are handing out red-tags based on their own biases, then the perception is the trust system is fucked.
After somebody starts to
really spend time on this forum, it won't be long until he/she will notice the trust "numbers" tend to change now and then. Then the next step is to see how good or bad it actually is.
I think that it's OK if people have different views in certain cases, it would be utterly boring if we would all think the same.
And while I don't agree with some of the views/decisions/feedbacks Poker Player has made, I do agree that somebody who has bought account
is shady. And in the last 5+ years this was made clear in many occasions.
On the other hand, maybe it would be the time to educate people that higher ranked accounts are not necessarily better, that even an account with positive feedback can be bought and scam, to basically trust nobody but math. Then maybe, after a while, I would get to agree with DireWolfM14 that such tags are wasted time. Just, sadly, I don't think that this is feasible (but I'd be happy to be proven wrong).