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Posted by: JBSpudster
Posted by: Scapegoat413
I am sort of jumping the gun on this, but I'm bored and feel like typing. Also, all the credit for this little discovery goes to JBSpudster.
It's well known that Honorable, Noble and Exalted were predictable as long as someone had not had any bans. Honorable was one, Noble two, and Exalted three. What was confusing was when someone was banned/warned, they didn't always lose the title, and sometimes people gained titles after being warned and banned.
This post explains it, I believe.
The 3 ban related prefixes have different requirements, varying time and allowed ban lengths/counts. Sooo. You have a little wiggle room, it seems. I'm guessing it's a ratio of some kind. I don't want to get into exact numbers, because I really don't know much, and I'd just be making them up, but I think it's a safe guess that as you get higher up, you are allowed fewer warnings/bans before dropping down, and Exalted may allow 0 bans/warnings.I appreciate the credit, but I didn't really discover this. If anything, we both just uncovered an overlooked aspect of the title system. Although, it is really interesting to me that this wasn't found or mentioned earlier.
Just to summarize what this means, under certain circumstances people can keep their ban related prefix even after being banned, where as in the past it was just assumed that bans always remove the ban related prefixes. If I'm not mistaken, it was Pro Kendog who kept his Honorable prefix after receiving a short ban, and now we know why. ^_^
EDIT: Perhaps the OP should be updated with this new information?
Oh come on, man! It was obvious! I posted it a couple pages back.
Damn it, I think I just lied. XD Still, I knew this for a while. If you view the base member titles as combinations of the three attributes, you can see that even though one may be banned, they can retain their title instead of being demoted to member and having to gain all the trust back. That's one example for you.
[Edited on 12.03.2009 9:25 PM PST]