Don't measure up advice with ranks. Are you going to steal if a legendary member asked you to? The answer is up to you to decide.
It's normal to see who are the members themselves, whether the members are exactly having good experiences and knowledge or not in this forum. Rank may not determine 100% that they are all good in anything here. But at least, members with high ranks, moreover the one that commonly ranks up with good merits will generally have good knowledge. I can see many members here that can rank up to the higher ranks up to Legendary because of their ability and knowledge. And there are many members like this. So, members with high ranks that got many merits may be different, they commonly have more knowledge. However, note that this doesn't mean similar applies to all high members. Many new members also have good knowledge and discussion (opinion/advice).
But once more, if this is about advice, we must consider several things.
- Don't see who gives you advice, whether it is a low member or high member, see the advice itself.
- If the advice makes sens and if the advice is reasonable and helpful, then the advice can be taken into consideration in deciding or taking action.
- Look for some advice and opinions that allow mutual support to strengthen the advice.