… so if i see that symbol, it basically means you guys on the gtru team liked it?
No not at all. There is an equal treatment of all torrents. Taste of team (members) is not a criteria to promote a torrent.
The criteria include (not exhaustive):
long time "dead" (no activity counter, no completed downloads for months) requested "dead" help of low ratio members being the only seed (re-seed) etc …