When you use words like 'harass' and 'extort' etc I think you're grossly exaggerating. It all boils down to someone daring to point out something you didn't like and it escalated from there. You could've just ignored it or dealt with it better and you wouldn't be in this situation now. You were seemingly fine with the defaulttrust and quite clearly loved being on it and the power it gave you so you were one of the 'buddies' of the 'boys club' until you were removed from it for abusing it, now you do what everyone else does and weeps and whines about abuse and conspiracies and how it has failed you. If someone on the default trust abused it against you and left you negative feedback you'd be here crying the loudest of them all for it or they to be removed because that certainly would have damaged your reputation. At the moment the only thing that is damaging your trading reputation is yourself. If the system is as broken as you say it is then you shouldn't really be bothered by being removed from it. If it didn't have integrity you would still be on it. Abusers are removed therefore it has integrity, but you're just annoyed that you can't influence it any more and the power has been taken away from you. The system isn't perfect but it worked in this case and if someone had done the same thing to you and had been removed then you'd likely be here championing it instead.