Trust Point "earn" other contributor's and readers' trust and respect for the quality answers you give.
There is no limit as to how many trust points a person can earn on WikiAnswers. Currently, the highest number of trust points held by a person on this site is well over 8,000.
Your total WikiAnswers contribution points are calculated as the sum of all of the contribution points you have earned. These include first answers, edits, organizational actions, questions asked, and community contributions. All of these points come under the heading of "Contributions" in your WikiAnswers profile. Trust points are slightly different. Contributors do not directly earn these points through their contributions; they are awarded trust points by other WikiAnswers users. Therefore, trust points are not counted as contributions, and do not add to the contribution points total in a WikiAnswers profile.
You can get trust points on WikiAnswers by making many helpful edits and doing your best to make WikiAnswers a great Q&A site. When people see an answer you posted on a question, they have the option to "Recommend" you. When they do this, you receive a trust point.To earn trust point you have to answer questions. If the asker thinks your answer is good they will give you a trust point. Not all askers give trust points though. Good luck and keep answering!
Wow, this would be an utterly long list of users! Many users on WikiAnswers have more than 50 trust points, although it takes time and a lot of good answers and other contributions to earn them.
Typically, asking for trust points can or is discouraged. Those who earn trust points are for the most part contributing wonderful things to Answers.com which can include, nice, well organized answers. There are MANY WAYS to earn trust points though.
You don't earn money but you can earn trust points. Trust points on Answers.com are earned when other users recommend you because they like your contributions. These are not tradeable in any way, but are merely an indicator of how highly-rated a contributor is.
you earn them when you recommend someone or they recommend you
Probably because not enough WikiAnswers contributors have read your contributions or have considered giving you or others a trust point. I suspect that Supervisors are more likely to attract trust points than other contributors because of the improvements they make to the contributions of others which are likely to then attract a response from the original contributor.
WikiAnswers Trust Points are received when someone clicks on "recommend" on your profile, not by the amount of contributions. You'll find quality answers that are really helpful will earn those points. You also get confidence votes when someone says that an answer you contributed to was helpful (on the question page).
Trust pointsIn theory, asking questions can cause someone to recommend you through your profile, which gives you a trust point.In general, though, trust points are awarded by other users based on the quality of your contributions to answers.No user earns any trust points without another user recommending him or her. Just asking a question or contributing to the answer doesn't grant anybody a trust point.
You can earn trust points. These are given to you by other contributors when they believe you have done something well (for example, answering a question thoroughly and coherently).
No, however, the more trust points you have, the more you are bound to be trusted - and to get more trust points! To earn trust points, all you need to do is have good quality contributions, and hopefully someone will stumble upon them and give you a trust point!