User blog comment:The Illusive Man/Mac Walters uses the ME Wiki/@comment-2256917-20101015210531/@comment-2256917-20101018052247

There must be a word for "horribly funny" and "funnily horrible"! Yeah, not sure what you meant Hunter. For the record, I meant "a mark of honor" as a signifying one's opinion of the goodness or power of something else. In this case, the signification of the site's goodness (and ability to inform the viewer), coming from one of the lead writers of the series, publicly. - Frankly, interviews are only a sign of honor if by giving the interview, the interviewee means to imply that the interviewer is worthy of one's time in a special way (which cannot be assumed where freedom of the press has produced an expectation of giving interviews; or really anywhere: sometimes people give interviews merely to advertise themselves).

Or in short, it was public praise from someone at the top of the series.