Benefits of having "trusted / high quality" user recognition

No. Writing X many of this that or the other doesn't necessarily correlate to trust in editorial approach generally. It doesn't evidence appropriate neutrality on pet subjects, nor talk page discussion approaches. Nor is the reverse true; not writing these doesn't in any way deny trust. I'd take high level content as evidence, but other stuff counts under "trust". I'll try to write up a brief idea on this in a bit.

FT2 (Talk | email)22:21, 26 November 2009