Perhaps the perception you're having is caused by the fact that you did not know how cynical I was when I started. My trust has increased quite a bit. If I appear not to trust Alicorn very much, this is because I've seen what appears to be an unusually high number of mistakes. I realize that this may be due to biased sample (I haven't read thousands of Alicorn's posts, maybe a dozen or so). But I'm not going to update with information I don't have, and I don't see it as a good use of time to go reading lots and lots of posts by Alicorn and whoever else trying to figure out how much to trust them. I will have a realistic idea of her eventually.