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"Whatever exists, whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."
I am not quite sure, because the English language is cruel to those who use it, but I think "feedbacks" is not a word, or at least not the proper word for that context. I'm too lazy so I will let you decide upon that.
The problem with any ranking system, to me, is that it exists. But I am a naive philosopher who clings to outdated views about absolute justice and pure goodness and silly things like that. So I'm alone on that one.
So we'll say that a system is good. Now we must distribute the rank, and this is where we run into a new, and perhaps larger, problem. A perfect system would be automatic, reward good behavior and activity simultaneously, and contain ranks that would both make "lesser members" envious without making "greater members" elitist. So we cannot use a post count. That only encourages activity, and specifically a kind of activity that allows the impatient to surpass the veteran if he is careful. We cannot use a reputation system, because that relies on human input, and while some of trust the moderators to be completely fair, they are still prone to human emotions. On top of that they are humans, and so they cannot see everything in order to judge who's been naughty and who's been nice.
So now that we've managed to demolish the first two big ideas that could have worked if humanity weren't a problem, we need to find another system that at least partially fulfills all of these criteria. Achronos has stated before that there is the theoretical possiblity of a working automatic system. However, he has not divulged the specifics of his theory. To summarize his post, the system works, but it works because we do not know how it works. So trying to contemplate on theoretical systems is the downfall of these systems.
So perhaps Bungie.net does not have a ladder system because the sites that do have a ladder system can be manipulated, and people keep trying to come up with ideas about how a system might work. I have a headache now, but truly ignorance is bliss.