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Posted by: Achronos
It should be noted that if I did change it to a "pick the title you want from the list you've unlocked" I'd probably make sure that a great many of them would be rather obvious as to how you'd "unlock" them. They'd also be participation in nature for the most part. No "is a level 50 in Halo 3", more of "Played X ranked games" or "Played Y social games" or " Played Z custom games". And the elitism you guys seem so fond of whining about wouldn't be there because nobody could tell if you just like a different title or if you don't have a title because you can't unlock it. With a hierarchy, it becomes just a popularity issue, which is easily controlled.
I think I'd also make the bar color just indicative of join date, not the trust rating. I don't really want to give you control over that.
Eh, maybe, maybe not. Again, thinking out loud. It sure would be funny on release day when everybody's bars change and they revert to member because the old way got removed. The Halo 3 forum would freak out.
Posted by: Spartan_008
I liked it better when everyone was just a regular member back in 2006. Sure, I've read all of this, but I don't understand why some members with newer accounts than mine are both higher in base title and prefix title as well. Oh well, maybe I should post longer responses or something.This would be a really interesting way to integrate the forums more with the games, which I remember was a primary push behind possible "big ticket" changes to private groups back in December.
However, I thought that the trust rating was implemented for the purposes of eventually implementing something like the member titles on the public forums? Wouldn't this completely negate the purpose of having trust ratings at all? I like the idea of being able to have a (very) rough idea at a glance of how much Bungie.net "trusts" a user, and I like the concept that trust ratings have noticeably encouraged some users to behave better on these forums. As my PM box can attest, users do care about member titles, and they know that warnings and bans can hurt them.
The Bungie.net public forums are one of the primary roosting places, if not the primary roosting place for the Bungie fan community (although they are also the place where many players who would not consider themselves part of the "community" come to ask a quick question, get news, or arrange custom games). For this reason, I also like the idea that users with high "trust" ratings (or perhaps eventually some other related measure of value to the Bungie Community) receive some kind of recognition. We have had these trust ratings and member titles for a long time now, and the prior concerns from some community members about "elitism" have simply not manifested themselves. MOST people (except newbies) realize that the Titles are not "ranks," and realizing that activity and following the rules, generally, are the best ways to gain a higher title. I think that maintaining a recognition system for users with higher trust ratings (just like member titles, nothing too fancy -- perhaps extra avatar options or something else that a member can attach a small "value" to that incentivizes him or her to stick around and keep following the rules) is still a good idea and should not be completely wiped off the drawing board.
With that said, I still think the idea of implementing new and different titles based on integration with Bungie games would be fun and very interactive. Definitely something that it would be cool if you Bungie folks kept thinking about in the back of your heads. I just think that the member titles have already had enough positive effect on the forums to justify maintaining SOME kind of recognition for having a high trust rating on the site. :-)
[Edited on 04.02.2009 4:28 PM PDT]