I don't think account age matters much, and I definitely wouldn't trust someone just because their account is 5 years old.
My point is to decided if you want to add them in your trust network and leave them a positive feedback.
I can find you users who are getting easily in the trust network just because they earned few hundreds of quick merits, busted scammers or did certain activities which looks positive and now they became DT members with unnecessary positive feedback left by other DT members like "This is a good scam buster I trust him" or "x is very active forum member and contributing in the forum from xxx times".
If someone is very focused in building up their reputation and doing is very fast then there should be things to be worried. This was my point of the last post.