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Posted by: Grimick
Is Exalted the best then? I figured that Senior/Elder Member was more prestigious.
I would like to say yes, but it wouldn't be a completely honest answer. Exalted is the most prestigious (best) in my and -most likely- [whoever made the title system]'s opinion (because he made it the most dominant prefix).
Post count type prefixes (intrepid and fabled) only tell you how much a user has posted on his account: A rather unimportant statistic (in my opinion) that doesn't really say anything about the user other than you'll probably see him a lot.
Account age related prefixes (veteran, senior and elder) only tell you how long the user has had an account: Something you could already tell more accurately without the help of a title. The only thing that this really tells about the user is that he has avoided account deletion for some time and he's probably [this many] years older than the age of two at least.
Finally, moderation related titles (honorable, noble and exalted) tell you a mixture of how severely a user has been warned or banned and how recently: These titles can actually help you figure out the character of the user a little better. Most of these users are either shy around the forums -enough to not get hit with a warning or ban yet- or are forum savvy (ok, that "forum savvy" part might be me showing off my high horse) users that know how to follow the rules whether it be instinct or knowledge. Not to mention that, because exalted is the most dominant, any user who qualifies for all prefixes ends up with exalted either way.
Although I firmly think exalted is the most prestigious (best) prefix you could have on your title, I believe it's still a matter of opinion. The titles are just too... automated, too... unrelated to each other: They're too incomparable, that's it! And when it comes down to it, they're just a bunch of different colored trinkets trying to tell a little about the far more sophisticated user behind them.
I kind of started ranting, didn't I? Oh well. I got it off my mind. Did this make any sense?
[Edited on 01.10.2012 12:06 AM PST]