Trust is a fallacy. I think that a lot of legitimate new users try as hard as they can to make themselves look like legit users but most of the shit they do (spam post count and then donate 5-?$ with svu) just makes them look like vaders. The only people you fool with that shit is other new users/offsite people. It works very well for the people who are fooled but you still won't have a presence in the community.
There are very few people on this site i would consider trusted and those people are either personal contacts or people who have invested time into the site (this doesn't mean join date or post count).