Benefits of having "trusted / high quality" user recognition

How about becoming a trusted editor automatically after having written 1 FA / 5 GA / 50 DYKs? No need for community voting, just show quality content that was recognized by others (FAreviewrs/GAreviewrs/DYKreviewers). In addition, the trusted editor would be trusted only for content areas recognized by appopriate WikiProject tags in content he has created. The approval procedure could be held on a given WikiProject talk pages (and perhaps centralised via transclusion to a more general forum), and the voting should be open to members of that WikiProject as well as all other trusted editors. As such, the approval would be discussed by experts (specific and general), with little chance of the status being disrupted by wikipolitics or trolls. --Piotrus 22:04, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

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 is right that some of these processes are a little too vulnerable to whims and personal opinion. The reason that FA's are great is because they're the only status that's given by consensus. I've actually seen apparent GA's try for FA and get slammed hard, with people arguing they should be demoted.

Not to say that FA should be the only way to tell if an editor understands quality. But going with other measures could make it possible for a faction to pump up the credentials of their own narrow-minded editors.