Your situation is a good example of when people do not vet accusations sufficiently throughly, and who lack the critical thinking ability to try to disprove the accusation, and to rule out possible defenses.
I agree because I did my best to inform the forum that we knew each other.
In my opinion, negative trust rating should be posted only after the end of the accusation case and not at the beginning or even during the case, especially if accusations are granted by a new account, created only for this purpose. Only this should be a red flag for DT members and raise their suspicions. In my case, it was quite the opposite and I couldn't believe how difficult it was to convince some DTs to change their decisions, especially when I was telling the truth all the time and presented a lot of evidence for my defense.
Of course, DT with a lot of experience, Lauda for example, needed only a fraction of the time and my explanations to remove the red paint from my account. I was even happy to see Lauda in my accusation thread because I knew I can count on an honest judgment from this member. Despite all the drama around Lauda, I still think that was one of the best DT members ever. For so many years everything was fine, it was enough to replace DT from time to time, to give them the rest or add more of them, when problems started and not enough DT members could not handle it.
