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A lot of people scream loudly and organize an authoritative body to 'validate' or determine the 'quality' of services, or content, in many industries... They are normally called an 'agency' or a 'cooperative' where members apply, become accredited and then get the right to use a trademark, or other protected mark, in their advertisements. This method only works when there is a restricted outlet for those services ( such as a newspaper who only puts in stories they want or a directory of 'accredited' service providers supplied by the org that does the 'accreditation' ) or when it is such a specialized service that it is in the ENTIRE groups best interest to protect their skills ( nuclear welding comes to mind ). The reason this will never work on a large scale on the internet is because there are over 180 counties where billions of new digital content items are created every day ( See Google Blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.h... and this was in 2008... ) and it is not in EVERYONES best interest to have a singular body ‘validating’ the ‘quality’ of every piece of content. The human resources alone to accomplish this task are not economically feasible and the ‘quality’ of any one individual’s writing is just like art, in the eye of the beholder.