It is given to denote the trust level the original Developer is designating to that legitimate account.
Isn't that what trust is for? Leave a neutral rating from each account to the other to confirm that it is a trusted account.
As a side note, you've left yourself positive trust, which is also generally frowned upon.Specially since it takes Merit to be able to post pictures and the threads need to be created soon.
This reasoning might have been valid if you had left yourself 1 merit, since it only takes 1 merit to be able to post images, not 40.